CURRICULUM
VITAE
Nihan
Kesim Çiçekli
Associate
Professor Phone:
(90) 312 210 5582
Department
of Computer Engineering Fax:
(90) 312 210 5544
Middle
East Technical
University
(METU) E-mail: nihan@ceng.metu.edu.tr
Ankara,
06531, TURKEY
http://www.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~nihan
Education
Ph.D., Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, March 1993, London, U.K.
M.S., Computer Engineering and Information Sciences, July
1988, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
B.S., Computer Engineering, July 1986, Middle East
Technical University,
Ankara, Turkey
University
Employment
Assoc. Professor: (Aug. 2006 - ) Department of Computer
Engineering, METU, Ankara, Turkey.
Assistant Professor: (June '98-Aug. 06 )
Department of Computer Engineering, METU, Ankara,
Turkey.
Visiting Associate Professor: (Aug '01-Aug 03 ) Department of Computer Science, University
of Central Florida, Orlando, USA
(sabbatical).
Assistant Professor: (September '93- January'98
) Department of International Relations, Bilkent
Univerity, Ankara,
Turkey.
Teaching Assistant:
(September86-September89) Department of Computer
Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
Research
Areas
Multimedia
databases, digital libraries, semantic web, web services, event calculus.
Teaching
Undergraduate Level:
Data
Structures and Algorithms
File Structures and Data Management
Database
Management Systems
Logic
for Computer Science
C
Programming
Graduate Level:
Database
Management Systems
Distributed
Databases
Awards
The
Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) Scholarship
(provided by N.A.T.O.) for a Ph.D. study in the U.K., from 10/1989 to 10/1992.
ODTÜ Prof. Dr. Mustafa Parlar
Eğitim ve Araştırma Vakfı,
ODTÜ Yılın Eğitimcisi
Ödülü, 2004.
Publications
- Cicekli, N.K., I. Cicekli,
Formalizing the specification and execution of workflows using the event calculus,
2005, Information Sciences, vol. 176, no. 15, 2006, pp. 2227-2267.
- Cicekli, I., N.K. Cicekli,
Generalizing predicates with string arguments, 2005, Applied Intelligence,
vol. 25., No 1, 2006, pp.23-36.
- Nihan K. Cicekli,
Ahmet Cosar, Asuman Dogac, Faruk Polat, Pinar Senkul, I. Hakki Toroslu and Adnan Yazici, Data Management Research at the Middle East Technical University,
ACM Sigmod Record, Volume 34, Number 3,
September 2005.
- Erozel, G., N.K.Cicekli,
I. Cicekli, Natural Language Interface on a Video Data Model, Proceedings of IASTED DBA 2005,
Austria.
- Koprulu, M., N.K. Cicekli, A. Yazici, Spatio-temporal
Querying in Video Databases, Information Sciences, 160, pp. 131-152, 2004.
- Cicekli, I., N.K. Cicekli and E.
Gelenbe, (eds.), Proceedings of the 17th
International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS XVII),
Orlando, FL, USA, CRC Press, 2002.
- Koc, O., F.N. Alpaslan
and N.K. Cicekli, Visualizing Transition Diagrams of Action Language
Programs, Proc. of the 17th Intl. Symposium on Computer and
Information Sciences (ISCIS2002), October 2002, Orlando, Forida, USA, pp. 181-186.
- Koprulu, M., N.K. Cicekli and A. Yazici, Spatio-Temporal
Querying in Video Databases, Proc. of the Sixth International Conf. on
Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS2002), Denmark, Oct 2002.
- Kacar, E. and N.K. Cicekli,
Discovering Fuzzy Spatial Association Rules, SPIEs
16th Annual Intl. Symposium on Aerospace/Defense sensing,
Simulation and Controls, Conference on Data Mining and Knowledge
Discovery: Theory, Tools, and Technology, Orlando, April 2002.
- Koksal, P., N.K. Cicekli and H. Toroslu,
Specification of Workflow Processes using the Action Description Language
C, AAAI Spring 2001 Symposium Series: Answer Set Programming, Palo Alto,
California, March 2001, pp. 103-109.
- Cicekli, N. K. and Y. Yildirim, Formalizing Workflows using the Event
Calculus, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1873, M. Ibrahim,
J. Kung and N. Revell (eds.), Database and
Expert Systems Applications, Proceedings of the 11th Intl.Conf.,
DEXA 2000, London, UK, September 2000, pp. 222-231.
- Çiçekli, Nihan
Kesim, A Temporal Reasoning Approach to Model
Workflow Activities, LNCS 1649, Ron Pinter and Shalom Tsur
(eds.), NGITS'99, Zikhron-Yaakov, Israel, July 1999.
- Kesim, F.N. and Sergot,
M., Implementing an Object-Oriented Deductive Database Using Temporal
Reasoning, Journal of Database Management, Vol. 7, No. 4, 1996.
- Kesim,
F.N. and Sergot, M., A Logic Programming
Framework for Modelling Temporal Objects, IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 8, no. 5, October
1996.
- Çiçekli, Nihan Kesim, A Temporal Reasoning Approach to
Knowledge-based Simulations, Proceedings of the 11th Intl. Symp. on Computer and
Information Sciences, Antalya,
Turkey,
1996.
- Kesim, F.N., Sergot,
M.J., Schema Evolution in a
Deductive Framework, Proc. of DOOD95 Post-Conference Workshop on Temporal
Reasoning in DOOD, December 1995, Singapore, pg. 69-74.
- Dogac, A., Kilic,
E., Ozhan, G., Dengi,
C., Kesim, N., Koksal,
P., Experiences in Using CORBA for a Multidatabase
Implementation, 6th International Conference on Database and Expert
Systems Applications, Workshop presentation, London, September 1995.
- Dogac.,A., Dengi, C., Kilic, E., Ozhan, G., Ozcan, F., Nural, S., Evrendilek, C.,
Halici, U.,Arpinar,
B., Koksal, P., Kesim,
N., Mancuhan, S., METU Interoperable Database
System, In ACM SIGMOD Record, Vol.24, No.3, September 1995.
- Kesim, F.N., Evolution of Objects and
the Schema in Deductive Databases, In the Proceedings of the International
Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Antalya, October 1994.
- Kesim, F. N., Sergot,
M., Versioning of Objects in Deductive Databases, In the Proceedings of
the International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases, Arizona, December
1993.
- Kesim, F. N., Temporal Objects in
Deductive Databases, Ph.D. Thesis, Imperial
College, London, 1993.
- Kesim, F.N., Sergot,
M., On the Evolution of Objects in a Logic Programming Framework, In the
Proceedings of the International Conference on Fifth Generation Computer
Systems, Tokyo, Japan, June 1992.
- Kesim, N., Sergot,
M., On the Dynamics of Objects in a Logic Programming Framework, ICLP'92 Preconference Workshop on Merging Object-Oriented and
Logic Programming, June 1991.
- Kesim, F.N., An
Object Memory for an Object-Oriented Database Management System, M.S.
Thesis, Bilkent University, Ankara, July 1988.
- Ozelci, S., Kesim,
N., Karaorman, M., Arkun,
E., An Experimental Object-Oriented Database
Management System Prototype, In the Proceedings of the International
Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, October 1988, Cesme, Izmir.