Kano’s model has been extensively used to investigate the customer requirements and to determine which features of the product (or service) have the most impact on customer satisfaction (or dissatisfaction). During the ...

Placing students to dormitories is a yearly, routine activity at universities. Until recently, this process has been accomplished manually at Işık University. The manual process had several disadvantages: it was slow, it ...

The most important step is early and effective diagnosis in the treatment of melanoma which constitutes the biggest part of skin cancers results in death. At the present time, dermatologists take dermoscopy images, visually ...

This study includes a system dynamics model to analyze the energy demand, production and energy consumption in an integrated framework. The main focus of this study is on domestic and imported energy consumption in Turkey. ...

In recent years, Home Health Care Services has been growing rapidly due to people who have chronic illnesses or physical disabilities, and an increasingly elderly population. Home Health Care Services provides medical care ...

Scheduling games in a league and referee assignment are important planning tasks of professional football federations. Previous research studied game scheduling and referee assignment problems separately. This thesis ...

Network properties for public bus transportation networks (BTNs) of four largest cities (İstanbul, İzmir, Ankara, Bursa) in Turkey have been analyzed under C-, L- and P-Space topologies. Node degree distributions are shown ...

This thesis aims to propose a new low bit-rate speech compression method. In the proposed method, classical SYMPES (Systematic Procedure for Predefined Envelope and Signature Sequences) based predefined signature and ...

Learning is the most central process in education where it's essential outcome being the assimilation of new skills, abilities, perspectives, attitudes, and knowledge. Learning is a life-long quest that is vital in today's ...

Management of inland maritime transportation is an important task since it has a costly operation environment, as well as public service responsibility with safety and speed concerns. A typical operation involves multiple ...