Pinar Senkul @METU Computer Engineering Department

	CENG METU

Teaching

Pinar (Karagoz) SENKUL

Interest Areas:
	Workflow Systems, Database Management Systems, Logic Programming, Data Mining, Semantic Web
Current Research Areas:
	Specification and Verification of Workflows, Multi-relational Data Mining, Web Mining, Web Service Composition
Contact Information:
	E-mail	:	senkul[at]ceng.metu.edu.tr
	Address	:	METU Computer Eng. Department B-110 06531 Ankara Turkey
	Telephone	:	+90-(312)-210-5518
	Fax	:	+90-(312)-210-5544

Announcements:

You can see the graduation project contest presentation videos here

ISCIS 2009

Summer School Registration Approvals:

Tue 11:00 - 11:30, Wed 15.30 - 16.00

Teaching:

Spring 2009
- CENG 714
- CENG 492
  - Projects
Previous
- CENG 213 Data Structures
- CENG 230 Introduction to Programming
- CENG 301 Algorithms and Data Structures
- CENG 302 Introduction to DBMS
- CENG 491 Computer Engineering Design I
- CENG 553 Database Management Systems
- CENG 714 Data Mining

Publications:

Journals and Book Chapters
- Y. Kavurucu, P. Senkul , I. H. Toroslu, ILP-based Concept Discovery in Multi-Relational Data Mining, Expert Systems With Applications, vol: 36, issue: 9, Pages 11418-11428, November 2009, doi: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.02.100
- E. Karakoc, P. Senkul , Composing Semantic Web Services Under Constraints, Expert Systems With Applications, Volume 36, Issue 8, October 2009, Pages 11021-11029, doi: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.02.098.
- N. K. Cicekli, A. Cosar, A. Dogac, F. Polat, P. Senkul , I. H. Toroslu, A. Yazici, Data management research at the Middle East Technical University, SIGMOD RECORD 34 (3): 81-84 SEP 2005.
- P. Senkul, I. H. Toroslu, An Architecture for Workflow Scheduling Under Resource Allocation Constraints, Information Systems, vol 300 issue 5, pp. 399-422, July 2005.
- S. Mukherjee, H. Davulcu, M. Kifer, P. Senkul, G Yang, "A Survey of Logic based Approaches to Workflow Modeling, in Emerging Applications of Logics in Databases" (Springer Verlag '2003).
- Dogac, A., Gokkoca, E., Arpinar, S., Koksal, P., Cingil, I., Arpinar, B., Tatbul, N., Karagoz, P., Halici, U., Altinel, M., "Design and Implementation of a Distributed Workflow Management System: METUFlow", NATO-ASI on Workflow Management Systems and Interoperability, Dogac, A., Kalinichenko, L., Ozsu, T., Sheth, A., (Edtrs.), August 1997, pp. 60-90.
Conference Papers
- Y. Kavurucu, P. Senkul , I.H. Toroslu, Analyzing Transitive Rules on a Hybrid Concept Discovery System, International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (HAIS 2009), June 2009. (LNCS, Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems, volume 5572/2009, pp.227-234, ISSN: 0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online), Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, 2009).
- Y. Kavurucu, P. Senkul , I.H. Toroslu, Confidence-based Concept Discovery in Relational Databases, World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE 2009), pp.282-286, March 2009.
- Y. Kavurucu, P. Senkul , I.H. Toroslu, Aggregation in Confidence-based Concept Discovery for Multi-relational Data Mining, European Conference on Data Mining (ISBN:978-972-8924-63-8), pp. 43-50, Amsterdam, July 2008.
- P. Senkul, F. Altunyuva, CCTRFlow: Mantik-tabanli Isakisi Modelleme ve Planlama Araci, TBD 2. Istanbul Bilisim Kongresi, pp.201-211, Istanbul, Haziran, 2008.
- Y. Kavurucu, P. Senkul , I. H. Toroslu, Confidence-based Concept Discovery in Multi-Relational Data Mining, International Conference on Data Mining and Applications, pp. 446-451, Hong Kong, 19-21 March 2008.
- K. Kardas, P. Senkul , Enhanced Semantic Operations for Web Service Composition, International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Ankara, November 2007.
- L. Guner, P. Senkul , Frequent Itemset Mining with Trie Data Structure and Parallel Execution with PVM, EuroPVM-MPI 2007, October 2007 (LNCS-Springer: Recent advances in parallel virtual machine and message passing interface, LNCS 4757, pp. 289–296, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2007).
- S. D. Toprak, P. Senkul , Y. Kavurucu, I. H. Toroslu, A New ILP-based Concept Discovery Method for Business Intelligence, ICDE Workshop on Data Mining and Business Intelligence, April, 2007.
- E. Karakoc, K. Kardas, P. Senkul , A Workflow-based Web Service Composition System, Int. Conf on Web Intelligence (WI) Workshop on Service Composition, December 2006.
- P. Senkul, Web Service Construction by Using a Logical Formalism, ICDE Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases, No:56, April 2006.
- P. Senkul, Modeling Composite Web Services by Using a Logic-based Language, Second Italian Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives, Trento, Italy, December 2005.
- P. Senkul, M. Kifer, Ismail H. Toroslu, "A Logical Framework for Scheduling Workflows Under Resource Allocation Constraints", in 28th Conference on Very Large Database Systems (VLDB), Hong Kong, August 2002.
- P.Karagoz, "Adding Constraints to Logic-Based Workflows to Obtain Optimized Schedules", in Proc. of Conference on Extending Database Technology PhD Workshop, Konstanz, Germany, March 2000.
- P. Karagoz, S. Arpinar, P. Koksal, N. Tatbul, E. Gokkoca, A.Dogac, "Task Handling in Workflow Management Systems" in Proceedings of International Workshop on Issues and Applications of Database Technology, IADT'98, Berlin, July 1998.
- Tatbul, N., Nural, S., Karagoz, P., Cingil, I., Gokkoca, E., Altinel, M., Koksal, P., Dogac, A., Ozsu, T., "A Workflow Specification Language and its Scheduler", in Proc. of Intl. Conf. o n Computer and Information Sciences, Antalya, Turkey, November 1997.

Students:

Yusuf Kavurucu (Ph.D., 2005- ), Developing a Concept Discovery Method for Multi-relational Data.
Deniz Canturk (Ph.D., 2008- ), Web Services Discovery and Composition Framework.
Hakan Yilmaz (M.S., 2009 - ), Effect of Ontology on Web Usage Pattern Extraction
Eren Esin (M.S., 2008- February 2009 ), Process Mining
Engin Maden (M.S., 2008- ), Discovering Interesting Patterns for Architechture Simulation
Suleyman Salin (M.S., 2007- February 2009), Semantic Web Usage Mining.
Karani Kardas (M.S., 2005 - August 2007), Semantic Processes for Web Service Composition.
Erman Karakoc, (M.S. 2005 - April 2007),Modeling and Specification of Composite Web Services Under Constraints.
Fethi Altunyuva (M.S. 2005 - September 2006), Realization of CCTR Scheduling Tool.
Alper Celayir (SE M.S. Graduation Project - July 2008), Integrating BPEL into a Web Service Composition Framework
Ali Yilmaz (CENG M.S. Graduation Project - June 2007), Extending Sequence Mining Algorithms with Semantic Information
Celen Avci (SE M.S. Graduation Project - May 2007), Design and Development of a Web-based Component Repository
Levent Guner (CENG M.S. Graduation Project - January 2007) A Performance Study on Paralel Apriori
Rudi Acikgoz (CENG M.S. Graduation Project - June 2006), An Infrastructure for Reporting Tool
Orcun Yavuz (SE M.S. Graduation Project - June 2006), User-friendly Interface for Reporting Tool
Aziz Altun (CENG M.S. Graduation Project - June 2006) Rule-based Helpdesk System

Projects:

Scheduling Multiple Instances of Workflows Under Reseource Allocation Constraints (2005-2006).
Responsibility: Coordinator
Supported by: METU
Middle East Technical University Information Society Technologies - Excellency Center (METU-ISTEC) (2006 - )
Responsibility: Partner responsible for work package 9 , "Developing New Techniques for Web Mining and Semantic Web"
Supported by: TUBITAK

Research Related:

CCTR Implementation (by Fethi Altunyuva, Oct 2006)
Workflow Links