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Akın Günay

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Multi-Agent Systems Research Group
Department of Computer Engineering
Boğaziçi University

E-Mail: akin.gunay AT boun.edu.tr
Office: ETA 31 - AILAB
Phone: 0212 359 7095

in brief

I am a PhD student at the Computer Engineering Department of Boğaziçi University. My thesis advisor is Dr. Pınar Yolum. My primary research interests are artificial intelligence and multiagent systems. I am especially interested in reasoning, argumentation, commitments and agent communication. I am also a member of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Multi-Agent Systems Research Group.

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education

PhD, Boğaziçi University, Computer Engineering, 2008 - ...
MS, Boğaziçi University, Computer Engineering, 2006 - 2008
BS, Eastern Mediterranean University, Computer Engineering, 2001 - 2005
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research

artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, reasoning, argumentation, negotiation, commitments, distributed decision making, agent communication, semantic web services, service discovery, service matchmaking

publications

International Conference Papers
Akın Günay, Figen Oztoprak, S. Ilker Birbil and Pınar Yolum, "Solving Global Optimization Problems using MANGO", In A. Hakansson et al. (Eds.): KES-AMSTA 2009, LNAI 5559, pp. 783–792, Springer, Heidelberg. [Springer Link] [bib]
Akın Günay and Pınar Yolum, "Semantic Matchmaking of Web Services using Model Checking", In Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'08), pp. 273-280, Estoril, Portugal. [pdf] [bib]
Akın Günay and Pınar Yolum, "Structural and Semantic Similarity Metrics for Web Service Matchmaking", In G. Psaila and R.Wagner (Eds.), EC-Web 2007. LNCS, vol. 4655, pp. 129-138, Springer, Heidelberg. [pdf] [bib]
Adnan Acan and Akın Günay, "Enhanced Particle Swarm Optimization through External Memory Support", In Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'05), 2005, Vol. 2, pp. 1875-1882, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Adnan Acan and Akın Günay, "An External Memory Supported ACO for the Frequency Assignment Problem", In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms (ICANNGA'05), 2005, pp.365-368, Coimbra, Portugal.
Thesis
MS Thesis, "Process Based Matchmaking of Services", Boğaziçi University, February, 2008. [pdf] [bib]
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projects

TAM: Teleiletişim ve Enformatik Alanlarında Araştırmacı ve Akademisyen Yetiştirme Merkezi Projesi (Supported by DPT), 2009-...
MANGO: MultiAgent eNvironment for Global Optimization (Supported by TUBITAK), 2008-...
Process-Based Matching of Web Services (Supported by Bogazici University Research Fund), 2007-2009
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honours and awards

TUBITAK National Graduate Scholarship for PhD Study
TUBITAK National Graduate Scholarship for MS Study
IEEE Computer Society, 2004 Lance Stafford Larson Outstanding Student Paper Award
Student Grants
- European Agent Systems Summer School 2009
- International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2008 (IFAAMAS Student Travel Grant)
- IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2005 (IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Student Travel Grant)
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teaching

Assisted Courses at Boğaziçi University
CmpE 540: Principles of Artificial Intelligence (Fall 2007)
Assisted Courses at Eastern Mediterranean University
CmpE 240: Operating Systems (Fall 2005)
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links

People
Can Berkol
Ozgur Kafali
Can Kavaklioglu
Hasim Sak
Ilker Yildirim
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