Me on top of the hill!
Akın Günay

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

E-Mail: akin.gunay AT boun.edu.tr
Office: ETA 31 - AILAB
Phone: (+90) 212 359 7095

in brief

I am a PhD candidate in the Computer Engineering Department of Boğaziçi University. I am working under the supervision of Dr. Pınar Yolum. My primary research interests are artificial intelligence and multiagent systems. I am especially interested in commitments and agent communication. I am also a member of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Multi-Agent Systems Research Group.

Recently, I am a visiting PhD student in the Information Science Department of University of Otago and working with Dr. Michael Winikoff.

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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, multiagent systems, agent communication languages, commitments, semantic web services, service discovery, service matchmaking

publications

Journal Papers
Akın Günay and Pınar Yolum, "Service Matchmaking Revisited: An Approach based on Model Checking", Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 8(4), pp. 292-309, 2010 [Science Direct] [bib]
Conference and Workshop Papers
Akın Günay, Pınar Yolum and Michael Winikoff, "Commitment Protocol Generation", DALT 2012, (accepted).
Akın Günay and Pınar Yolum, "Detecting Conflicts in Commitments", In C. Sakama et al. (Eds.): DALT 2011, LNAI 7169, pp. 51-66, Springer, Heidelberg. [pdf] [bib]
Akın Günay, Figen Öztoprak, Ş. İlker 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 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.
Submitted
"Design and Implementation of a Formal Framework for Computing Conflict Relations Between Commitments", with Pınar Yolum, submitted to ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems.
"PROTOSS: A run time tool for detecting PRivacy viOlaTions in Online Social networkS:, with Özgür Kafal and Pınar Yolum, submitted to The 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining.
Thesis
MS Thesis, "Process Based Matchmaking of Services", Boğaziçi University, February, 2008. [pdf] [bib]
Others
Akın Günay, "Argumentation on Bayesian Networks for Distributed Decision Making", In T. Balke et al. (Eds.): Proceedings of the 11th European Agent Systems Summer School Student Session (EASSS'09), 2009. [Online Proceedings]
DBLP
My DBLP entry
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projects & experience

Visiting PhD student in the Information Science Department of University of Otago, January - June 2012
Commitment-Based Contract Generation for Ambient Intelligence (Supported by Boğaziçi University Research Fund), 2011-...
TAM: Teleiletişim ve Enformatik Alanlarında Araştırmacı ve Akademisyen Yetiştirme Merkezi Projesi (Supported by DPT), 2009-2011
MANGO: MultiAgent eNvironment for Global Optimization (Supported by TÜBİTAK), 2008-2011
Process-Based Matching of Web Services (Supported by Boğaziçi University Research Fund), 2007-2009
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scholarships and awards

TÜBİTAK International Research Fellowship (2012)
TÜBİTAK National Graduate Scholarship for PhD Study
TÜBİTAK National Graduate Scholarship for MS Study
IEEE Computer Society, 2004 Lance Stafford Larson Outstanding Student Paper Award
Student Grants
- International Spring School on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies 2011
- 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 160: Introduction to Object Oriented Programmins (Spring 2010)
CmpE 540: Principles of Artificial Intelligence (Fall 2007) (Fall 2010)
Assisted Courses at Eastern Mediterranean University
CmpE 240: Operating Systems (Fall 2005)
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links

some cool people...
Can Berkol
Özgur Kafalı
Can Kavaklıoğlu
Çetin Meriçli
Haşim Sak
İlker Yıldırım
other stuff
My Flickr page
My Blog (in Turkish)
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Page created at 23.05.2006 and updated at 07.01.2012. Please mail your comments to akin.gunay AT boun.edu.tr.