*Available publications appear as: | | |

Accepted and Pending Journal Papers


  1. B.Turhan and A. Bener, "Analysis of Naive Bayes' Assumptions on Software Fault Data: An Empirical Study", Accepted for publication in Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal, 2008.
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  2. B. Turhan, T. Menzies, A. Bener, J. Distefano, "On the Relative Value of Cross-company and Within-Company Data for Defect Prediction", Accepted for publication in Empirical Software Engineering Journal, 2008.
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  3. T. Menzies, Z.Milton, B. Turhan, Y. Jiang, G. Gay, B. Cukic, A. Bener, "Overcoming Ceiling Effects in Defect Prediction", (Under second revision in) IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2008.
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  4. A. Bakir, B.Turhan and A. Bener, "A New Perspective on Data Homogeneity for Software Cost Estimation", (Under second revision in) Software Quality Journal, 2008.
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  5. B.Turhan, A. Bener and G. Kocak "Data Mining Source Code for Locating Software Bugs: A Case Study in Telecommunication Industry". Submitted to Expert Systems with Applications Journal, 2008.
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  6. B.Turhan, Y. Kosker and A. Bener, "An Expert System for Determining Candidate Software Classes for Refactoring". Submitted to Expert Systems with Applications Journal, 2008.
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  7. B.Turhan, A. Bakir and A. Bener, "A Comparative Study for Estimating Software Development Effort Intervals". Submitted to Knowledge Based Systems Journal, 2008.
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  8. B.Turhan, Y. Kultur and A. Bener, "Ensemble of Neural Networks with Associative Memory (ENNA) for Estimating Software Development Costs", Submitted to Knowledge Based Systems Journal, 2008.
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  9. A. Tosun, B. Turhan, A. Bener, "Feature Weighting Heuristics for Analogy Based Effort Estimation Models", Submitted to Expert Systems with Applications, 2007.
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Intl. Workshops & Conferences


  1. A.Tosun, B. Turhan and A. Bener, "Direct and Indirect Effects of Software Defect Predictors on Development Lifecycle: An Industrial Case Study", to appear in Proceedings of the 19th Interntational Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE'08 Industry Track), 2008.
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  2. Y.Kultur, B. Turhan and A. Bener, "ENNA: Software Effort Estimation Using Ensemble of Neural Networks with Associative Memory", to appear in Proceedings of the 16th Interntational Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT FSE'08), 2008.
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  3. A. Tosun, B. Turhan and A.Bener, "Ensemble of Software Defect Predictors: A Case Study", in Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM'08 Short Paper), pp.318-320, 2008 |
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  4. B.Turhan, G. Kocak and A. Bener, "Software Defect Prediction Using Call Graph Based Ranking (CGBR) Framework", to appear in Proceedings of the 34th EUROMICRO Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (EUROMICRO SEAA'08), 2008.
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  5. B. Turhan, A. Bener, and T. Menzies, "Nearest Neighbor Sampling for Cross Company Defect Predictors (Abstract Only)", in Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Defects in Large Software Systems (DEFECTS'08 Workshop in ISSTA'08), pp. 26, 2008 |
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  6. B. Turhan and A.Bener, "Weighted Static Code Attributes for Software Defect Prediction", in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'08), pp.143-148, 2008 |
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  7. G. Kocak, B. Turhan and A.Bener, "Predicting Defects in a Large Telecommunication System", in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT'08 Poster), pp.284-288, 2008 |
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  8. A. Bakir, B. Turhan and A.Bener, "Software Effort Estimation as a Classification Problem", in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT'08 Poster), pp.274-277, 2008 |
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  9. Y. Kosker, A.Bener and B. Turhan, "Refactoring Prediction Using Class Complexity Metrics", in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT'08 Poster), pp.289-292, 2008 |
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  10. A. Tosun, B. Turhan and A. Bener,"The Benefits of a Software Quality Improvement Project in a Medical Software Company: A Before and After Comparison", in International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (HIBIT'08 Invited Paper), 2008.
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  11. T. Menzies, B. Turhan, A. Bener, G. Gay, B. Cukic, Y. Jiang, "Implications of Ceiling Effects in Defect Predictors", in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Predictor Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE'08 Workshop in ICSE'08), pp. 47-54, 2008 |
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  12. B. Baskeles, B. Turhan and A. Bener, "Software Effort Estimation Using Machine Learning Methods", in Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS'07), pp.126-131, 2007 |
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  13. B. Turhan and A. Bener, "A Multivariate Analysis of Static Code Attributes for Defect Prediction", in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC'07), pp. 231-237, 2007. |
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  14. B. Turhan, "Software Defect Prediction Modeling", in Proceedings of the 2nd International Doctoral Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (IDoESE'07 in ESEM'07), pp. 90-95, 2007 |
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  15. B. Turhan, O.Kutlubay and A. Bener "Evaluation of Feature Extraction Methods on Software Cost Estimation", in Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM'07 Poster), pp. 497, 2007 |
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  16. O. Kutlubay, B. Turhan and A. Bener, "A Two-Step Model for Defect Density Estimation", in Proceedings of the 33rd EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (EUROMICRO SEAA'07), pp. 322-332, 2007 |
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  17. B. Turhan and A. Bener, "Software Defect Prediction: Heuristics for Weighted Naive Bayes", in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT'07), pp. 244-249, 2007 |
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  18. B. Turhan and A. Bener, "A Template for Real World Team Projects for Highly Populated Software Engineering Classes", in Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'07), pp. 748-753, 2007 |
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  19. B. Turhan and O. Kutlubay, "Mining Software Data", in Workshop Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (DMBI Workshop in ICDE'07), pp. 912-916, 2007 |
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  20. B. Turhan and E. Alpaydin, "Unsupervised Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction Methods", in Proceedings of the 13th Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks (TAINN'04), pp. 29-38, 2004 |
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Local Conferences


  1. B. Turhan, A. Bener and Y.Kosker, "Sınıfların Karmaşıklık Ölçütleri Kullanılarak Tekrar Tasarım Durumlarının İrdelenmesi" (in Turkish), 2. Ulusal Yazilim Mimarisi Konferansi (UYMK'08), 2008 |
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  2. B. Turhan and A. Bener, "Yazilim Hata Kestirimi için Kaynak Kod Ölçütlerine Dayali Bayes Siniflandirmasi" (in Turkish), 3. Ulusal Yazilim Muhendisligi Sempozyumu (UYMS'07), 2007 |
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  3. B. Turhan, A. D. Oral and A. Bener, "A Short Survey on Software Architechture Evaluation Methods and Object Oriented Metrics", 1. Ulusal Yazilim Mimarisi Konferansi (UYMK'06), 2006 |
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  4. L. Santemiz, I. A. Sahin, B. Turhan and H. L. Akin, "Aibo Robotu Üzerinde Hizli Hareket Tiplerinin Gelistirilmesi" (in Turkish), Ulusal Otomatik Kontrol Toplantisi (TOK'02), 2002 |
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Other


  1. PhD. Thesis, "Improving the Performance of Software Defect Predictors with Internal and External Information Sources", Department of Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, 2008
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  2. M.Sc. Thesis, "Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction Methods for Pattern Recognition", Department of Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, 2004 | |
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  3. O.T. Yildiz, B. Mecit, B. Özisikyilmaz, D. Unat, B. Turhan, H. Özgür, "Introduction to Computers", Bogazici University Press, No. 831, Istanbul, 2004. |
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Burak Turhan
Research & Teaching Assistant
 
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Bogazici University
Department of Computer Engineering
34342 Bebek/Istanbul TURKEY
Tel : +90 (212) 359 7227
Fax : +90 (212) 287 2461
e-mail : turhanb boun.edu.tr
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