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    Traffic Light Management Systems Using Reinforcement Learning
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022-09-07) Can, Sultan Kubra; Thahir, Adam Rizvi; Cos¸kun, Mustafa; Güngör, Vehbi Çağrı; Coskun, Mustafa
    While reducing traffic congestion and decrease the number of traffic accidents in the intersections, most of the traffic light management approaches cannot adapt well to fast changing traffic dynamics and growing demands of the intersections with modern world developments. To overcome this problem, adaptive traffic controllers are developed, and detectors and sensors are added to systems to enable adoption and dynamism. Recently, reinforcement learning has shown its capability to learn the dynamics of complex environments, such as urban traffic. Although it was studied in single junction systems, one of the problems was the lack of consistency with how the real world system works. Most of the systems assume that the environment is fully observable or actions would be freely executed using simulators. This study aims to merge usefulness of reinforcement learning methods with real-world traffic constraints. Comparative performance evaluations show that the reinforcement learning algorithm (Advantage Actor-Critic (A2C)) converges well while staying stable under changing traffic dynamics. © 2022 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Offer Referees Suggester for the Journal Editors
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019-06) Cos¸kun, Mustafa; Hacilar, Hilal; Gezer, Cengiz; Güngör, Vehbi Çağrı; Coskun, Mustafa
    Assigning appropriate referees to a journal or conference paper is a vital task for many reasons, including enhancing the journal venue quality and reliance, fair judgement of the papers, and among many others. While assigning the referees to the papers, the editors of a journal venue need to find suitable referees who are both related to field of the given paper and have no conflict of interest with the authors of the paper. Editorial-wise this referee assignment process is implemented in a hand-crafted manner, i.e., the editor needs to find the most suitable referees to the paper via a search engine and manually refines the all unrelated and having conflict of interest authors to the paper authors. Clearly, such a manual referee searching process is tedious and time consuming for the editors.In this paper, we present an alternate automated approach for assigning referees problem using intrinsic random walk with restart proximity measure. In our experiments based on a comprehensive DBLP networks, we show that our approach, called OFFER, significantly outperforms state-of-the-art the random walk with restart based method. © 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Linear Vs. Non-Linear Embedding Methods in Recommendation Systems
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022-09-07) Gurler, Kerem; Cos¸kun, Mustafa; Karagenc, Safak; Orun, Gokhan; Kuleli Pak, Burcu Kuleli; Güngör, Vehbi Çağrı; Coskun, Mustafa; Pak, Burcu Kuleli
    Predicting customer interest in items is very crucial in direct marketing as it can potentially boost sales. Data mining techniques are developed to predict which items a particular user might be interested in based on their purchase history or explicit feedback in form of ratings or comments. Recently, non-linear and linear methods have been developed for this purpose. In this study, we applied Neighborhood based Collaborative Filtering (CF), Matrix Factorization (MF), Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), Neural Graph CF (NGCF) and Light Graph Convolutional Network (LightGCN) on explicit user product rating data which is acquired from the online gaming and mobile entertainment platform called HADI. We compared the results of node embedding methods in terms of Precision@k, Recall@k and NDCG@k values. SVD and LightGCN showed the best test performance and SVD was significantly superior to LightGCN in terms of training speed. To further increase predictive performance of SVD, we have applied classification with Logistic Regression and Deep Random Forest on user and item embeddings created by the SVD. © 2022 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Intrinsic Graph Topological Correlation for Graph Convolutional Network Propagation
    (Elsevier, 2023-01) Coskun, Mustafa
    Recently, Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) and their variants become popular to learn graph-related tasks. These tasks include link prediction, node classification, and node embedding, among many others. In the node classification problem, the input is a graph with some labeled nodes and the features associated with these nodes and the objective is to predict the unlabeled nodes. While the GCNs have been successfully applied to this problem, some caveats that are inherited from classical deep learning remain unsolved. One such inherited caveat is that, during classification, GCNs only consider the nodes that are a few neighbors away from the labeled nodes. However, considering only a few steps away nodes could not effectively exploit the underlying graph topological information. To remedy this problem, the state-of-the-art methods leverage the network diffusion approaches, such as personalized PageRank and its variants, to fully account for the graph topology. However, these approaches overlook the fact that the network diffusion methods favour high degree nodes in the graph, resulting in the propagation of the labels to the unlabeled,hub nodes. In order to overcome bias, in this paper, we propose to utilize a dimensionality reduction technique, which is conjugate with personalized PageRank. Testing on four real-world networks that are commonly used in benchmarking GCNs' performance for the node classification task, we systematically evaluate the performance of the proposed methodology and show that our approach outperforms existing methods for wide ranges of parameter values. Since our method requires only a few training epochs, it releases the heavy training burden of GCNs. The source code of the proposed method is freely available at https://github.com/mustafaCoskunAgu/ScNP/blob/master/TRJMain.m.
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    Intelligent Traffic Light Systems Using Edge Flow Predictions
    (Elsevier, 2024-01) Thahir, Adam Rizvi; Coskun, Mustafa; Kilic, Sultan Kubra; Gungor, Vehbi Cagri
    In this paper, we propose a novel graph-based semi-supervised learning approach for traffic light management in multiple intersections. Specifically, the basic premise behind our paper is that if we know some of the occupied roads and predict which roads will be congested, we can dynamically change traffic lights at the intersections that are connected to the roads anticipated to be congested. Comparative performance evaluations show that the proposed approach can produce comparable average vehicle waiting time and reduce the training/learning time of learning adequate traffic light configurations for all intersections within a few seconds, while a deep learning-based approach can be trained in a few days for learning similar light configurations.
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    Citation - WoS: 4
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    Integrated Querying and Version Control of Context-Specific Biological Networks
    (Oxford Univ Press, 2020) Cowman, Tyler; Coskun, Mustafa; Grama, Ananth; Koyuturk, Mehmet
    Motivation: Biomolecular data stored in public databases is increasingly specialized to organisms, context/pathology and tissue type, potentially resulting in significant overhead for analyses. These networks are often specializations of generic interaction sets, presenting opportunities for reducing storage and computational cost. Therefore, it is desirable to develop effective compression and storage techniques, along with efficient algorithms and a flexible query interface capable of operating on compressed data structures. Current graph databases offer varying levels of support for network integration. However, these solutions do not provide efficient methods for the storage and querying of versioned networks. Results: We present VerTIoN, a framework consisting of novel data structures and associated query mechanisms for integrated querying of versioned context-specific biological networks. As a use case for our framework, we study network proximity queries in which the user can select and compose a combination of tissue-specific and generic networks. Using our compressed version tree data structure, in conjunction with state-of-the-art numerical techniques, we demonstrate real-time querying of large network databases. Conclusion: Our results show that it is possible to support flexible queries defined on heterogeneous networks composed at query time while drastically reducing response time for multiple simultaneous queries. The flexibility offered by VerTIoN in composing integrated network versions opens significant new avenues for the utilization of ever increasing volume of context-specific network data in a broad range of biomedical applications. Availability and Implementation: VerTIoN is implemented as a C++ library and is available at http://compbio.case.edu/omics/software/vertion and https://github.com/tjcowman/vertion Contact: tyler.cowman@case.edu
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    Expanding Label Sets for Graph Convolutional Networks
    (Springer International Publishing AG, 2025) Coskun, Mustafa; Grama, Ananth; Bakir-Gungor, Burcu; Koyuturk, Mehmet
    In recent years, Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) and their variants have been widely utilized in learning tasks that involve graphs. These tasks include recommendation systems, node classification, among many others. In node classification problem, the input is a graph in which the edges represent the association between pairs of nodes, multi-dimensional feature vectors are associated with the nodes, and some of the nodes in the graph have "known" labels. The objective is to predict the labels of the nodes that are not labeled, using the nodes' features, in conjunction with graph topology. While GCNs have been successfully applied to this problem, the caveats that they inherit from traditional deep learning models pose significant challenges to broad utilization of GCNs in node classification. One such caveat is that training a GCN requires a large number of labeled training instances, which is often not the case in realistic settings. To remedy this requirement, state-of-the-art methods leverage network diffusion-based approaches to propagate labels across the network before training GCNs. However, these approaches ignore the tendency of the network diffusion methods in biasing proximity with centrality, resulting in the propagation of labels to the nodes that are well-connected in the graph. To address this problem, here we present an alternate approach, namely LExiCoL, which extrapolates node labels in GCNs in the following three steps: (i) clustering of the network to identify communities, (ii) use of network diffusion algorithms to quantify the proximity of each node to the communities, thereby obtaining a low-dimensional topological profile for each node, (iii) comparing these topological profiles to identify nodes that are most similar to the labeled nodes. Testing on three large-scale real-world networks, we systematically evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm and show that our approach outperforms existing methods for wide ranges of parameter values.
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    Assessing Employee Attrition Using Classifications Algorithms
    (Association for Computing Machinery, 2020-05-15) Ozdemir, Fatma; Cos¸kun, Mustafa; Gezer, Cengiz; Güngör, Vehbi Çağrı; Coskun, Mustafa; Cagri Gungor, V.
    Employees leave an organization when other organizations offer better opportunities than their current organizations. Continuity and sustenance and even completion of jobs are crucial issues for the companies not to suffer financial losses. Especially if the talented employees, who are at critical positions in the companies, leave the job, it becomes difficult for the organizations to maintain their businesses. Today, organizations would like to predict attrition of their employees and plan and prepare for it. However, the HR departments of organizations are not advanced enough to make such predictions in a handcrafted manner. For this reason, organizations are looking for new systems or methods that automatize the prediction of employee attrition utilizing data mining methods. In this study, we use IBM HR data set and apply different classification methods, such as Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest, J48, LogitBoost, Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Naive Bayes, Bagging, AdaBoost, Logistic Regression, to predict the employee attrition. Different from exiting studies, we systematically evaluate our findings with various classification metrics, such as F-measure, Area Under Curve, accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity. We observe that data mining methods can be useful for predicting the employee attrition. © 2022 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.