Atilla ELÇİ

Assoc. Prof. Dr.

Dept. of Computer Engineering

Schedule 2008 Spring

Academic Calendar

Important Dates

5K Fun Run
The First Place in 60+ Category
14th EMU Spring Festival,
May 19, 2007

Our CLD Robot was awarded
The First Place in the General Category
4th METU Robotics Days, March 3-4, 2007

Our CLD Robot was awarded
"A Special Prize for Technical Merit"

RO-MAN '06, Sept. 8, 2006

Read it on Kıbrıs Gazetesi (Turkish)

Research

 î Interests: Semantic Web, Multi-Agent Systems, Computational Linguistics, Information Security, Semantic Robotics, Programming Languages and Systems

 î Projects & Publications

Book

î

Security of Information and Networks (Proceedings of the First International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2007)) by Elçi, A., Ors, B., & Preneel, B.   (eds.) Trafford Publishing, Canada. 2008. ISBN: 978-1-4251-4109-7. Available now for online orders from the publisher, Barnes and Noble, Amazon.com, Books-A-Million, and BookSense.com. Google Book Search Soon as e-book and in a bookstore near you!

Conferences (See Also Previous CFPs)

î	2008 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC 2008) 15–18 September 2008, Shanghai, China.
î	Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop (KROW 2008) 16 - 19 September 2008, Sydney, Australia. CFP due date extended till June 8.
î	Yazılım Kalitesi ve Yazılım Geliştirme Araçları Sempozyumu (YKGS 2008) (Symposium on software quality and software development tools) 9-10 October 2008, Hava Harp Okulu Yeşilyurt and İstanbul Kültür Univ. Ataköy, Istanbul, Turkey.
î	5th Int'l Symposium on Electrical and Computer Systems ( EECS'08) 27-28 November 2008, European University of Lefke, Gemikonagi, TRNC.
î	Workshop on Logics for Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (WLIAMAS 2008) 9 December 2008, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
î	Bilgi Güvenliği ve Kriptoloji Kongresi (ISCCTurkey 2008) (Info Security & Cryptography Congress, in Turkish) 25 - 27 December 2008, Ankara, Turkey.
î	IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS 2009) at IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2009) 30 March - 2 April 2009, Sheraton Music City Hotel in Nashville, TN, USA.
Special Issues
î	Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering Special Issue on ESAS (Engineering Semantic Agent Systems) topics CFP is here. Due date is September 30, 2008.
î	Multiagent and Grid Systems Journal (MAGS) Special Issue CFP is here. Selection is complete. Special issue will appear in the first issue of 2009.
Book Chapters
î	A. Elçi & B. Rahnama (accepted): Semantic Robotics: Cooperative Labyrinth Discovery Robots for Intelligent Environments. In Complex Systems in Knowledge-Based Environment: Theory, Model, and Application (Editors: A. Tolk & L. C. Jain) by Springer Publishing.
	Previous CFPs

TR35 for 2007
TR35 for 2006
TR35 for 2005
TR100 for 2004
GC 2004: Innovation

Grand Challenges Report 2002

Current Courses

2007 - 2008 Spring Semester:

  î CmpE 588: Engineering Semantic Web Information Systems:  Course Description

       Previous offering (Spring 2007): Outline & Refs   Course Proposal  SWD Open House

        î Yahoo! Groups E-Mailing List will be set up at  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cmpe588-Spring2008/.

  î CmpE 218 Principles of Programming Languages:    Course Website (Gr. 3)  Common Course Website 
       Site for previous offering:   Course Website (Gr. 1)

   î Please activate your EMU e-mail box to benefit from the group e-Mailing List. 

FLASH NEWS

	IJRC 2008 International Joint Robotic Competition took place in EMU on 15-17 May 2008 during Spring Festival celebrations. EMU teams of CmpE students Oğuz Sezer & Serhat Kayıkçı took the first place and Mustafa Akkoç the third places in the Line Following Category. All results. Dated: May 17, 2008.
	Project Competition to support young entrepreneurs by GMTGB Teknopark (in Turkish).  Dated: April 14, 2008.
	Microsoft Weekend has been announced by the EMU ACM Student Chapter. Dated: April 14, 2008.
	IT Days have been announced by the EMU ACM Student Chapter. Check the ACM Local Activities Calendar or the Facebook entry.  Dated: Jan. 20, 2008.
	Applications are being accepted for six categories at Intl. Joint Robotics Competition (IJRC 2008) to be held here in EMU during 15-17 May 2008 in the Spring Festival, Gazimagusa, TRNC, North Cyprus. Dated: Jan. 15, 2008.
	EMU ACM Student Chapter has been set up and its website is up Dated: Nov. 29, 2007.

☼  Flash News Archive

Dictionaries

WordNet English

Dictionary for tech jargon & acronyms.
Urban Dictionary

Swedish/Turkish?

ICT Profession

• More than a million new jobs in Professional IT Occupations in the next decade in the US.
• ICT Careers.
• Core areas as seen by a professional society: ACS View.
• Career Development Framework by BCS.
• International Professional Engineers Register.
• Computing Curricula Site: @ACM or @IEEE CS
• The most recent completed reports in Computing Curricula Recommendations series: CS, Computer Eng., IS, Software Eng., Associate degrees, K-12: check @ACM.
• Joining the Turkish Informatics Association or the Turkish Chamber of Electrical Engineers (in Turkish).
• Joining the ACM, USA. Note the all-inclusive rate of $18 /year for students and similarly reduced rate for pros living in Turkey and Cyprus. If in doubt, contact me.
• ACM members benefit from free online books and courses at ACM Professional Development Center.
• Leads on professional conduct and ethics.

A recent presentation on Professional Ethics and Plagiarism.

Professional Ethics presentation at COMPSAC 2007 Ethics Panel.

Case study presentation

on revision of a computer engineering curricula in

Akademik Bilişim 2002.

Human Resources Sites

• Want to be discovered: pitch in your CV:
  • IT Pro CV Bank: Data Expert and its CV Club.
  • IT Pro CV Bank: www.cvplatformu.com and cvyolla.com.
  • Search for "Bilgisayar/Bilişim/İnternet" in kariyer.net.
  • Search for "Bilgisayar/BT/Internet" in SecretCV.
  • If you're an ACM member, can take advantage of ACM Career Resource Centre

Life in TRNC

• Study In North Cyprus           î    CyprusDays.com    
• Weather, Sun and the sea at TRNC     î  Northern Cyprus Hoteliers Assoc.
• TRNC Public Information Office       î  Tourism Site
• Scuba at EMU                  î  EMU Crows AF
• Gazimagusa Maps            î On Gazimağusa: Samtay Found.
• 10th Intl Famagusta Culture & Art Festival, 6-26 July 2006. 
• 12th Intl Famagusta Culture & Art Festival, 23 June - 15 July 2008.   

• A short vocabulary of Turkish Cypriot Tongue  

Personal

Leisure reading

Vehbi Koç Ankara Studies Guide