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Cryptography
Sharing DSS by the Chinese Remainder Theorem PDF
Kamer Kaya, Ali Aydın Selçuk
Image Encryption Scheme for Print and Scan Channel PDF
Ahmet Emir Dirik
Generic Trace and Revoke Schemes from Fingerprinting Codes
Murat Ak, Aggelos Kiayias, Serdar Pehlivanoğlu, Ali Aydın Selçuk
Joint Compartmented Threshold Access Structures PDF
Ali Aydın Selçuk, Ramazan Yılmaz
On Constructing Authentication Systems in Query Model PDF
Ferruh Özbudak, Ali Devin Sezer, Üstün Yıldırım
Speeding Up GH-Public Key Cryptosystem Through New PDF
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Speeding Up GH-Public Key Cryptosystem Through New Encryption Scheme
Muhammad Ashraf, Barış Bülent Kırlar
Improbable Differential Attack on PRESENT using Undisturbed Bits
Cihangir Tezcan
Speech Steganalysis Using Delay Vector Variance Based Features
Emrah Yürüklü, Osman H. Koçal, Erdoğan Dilaveroğlu
On the Algebraic Construction of Cryptographically Good Binary Linear Transformations
Muharrem Tolga Sakallı, Bora Aslan
Differential Entropy Analysis of the IDEA Cipher PDF
Alex Biryukov, Jorge Nakahara Jr, Hamdi Murat Yıldırım
Counting Boolean Functions with Specified Values in their Walsh Spectrum
Çağdaş Çalık, Erdener Uyan, Ali Doğanaksoy
Probabilistic Decoding of RS Codes with Extended BKY Algorithm
Oğuz Yayla, Ferruh Özbudak
On the Multiplication over Finite Fields of Characteristic Three in Hermite Polynomial Representation
Sedat Akleylek, Ferruh Özbudak, Canan Özel
Playing with Bits: Does It Really Provide Security? PDF
Cihan Ünsal, İmran Ergüler, Emin Anarım
Linear complexity of quaternary sequences of length with low autocorrelation
Vladimir Edemskiy, Andrey Ivanov
On Invariants of Towers of Function Fields over Finite Fields PDF
Seher Tutdere, Florian Hess, Henning Stichtenoth
Kanarya: A Lightweight Block Cipher PDF
Onur Koçak, Fatih Sulak, Ali Doğanaksoy
Modified Zheng-Seberry Signature Based Scheme is Provably Secure Against CCA2
Turgut Hanoymak, Murat Ak, Ali Aydın Selçuk
On the rank of a family of elliptic curves PDF
Ali Astaneh-Asl
On the Security of RFID Anti Cloning Security Protocol (ACSP)
Nasour Bagheri, Masoumeh Safkhani, Majid Naderi, Ali Mahani
Permutations of Finite Fields with Prescribed Properties PDF
Alev Topuzoğlu, Ayça Çeşmelioğlu, Wilfried Meidl
Ideal and Perfect Hierarchical Secret Sharing Schemes based on MDS Codes
Appala Naidu Tentu, Prabal Paul, China Venkaiah Vadlamudi
A Stream Cipher Model for Hardware Constraint Environments
Orhun Kara, İmran Ergüler, Emin Anarım
Generalization of Linear Complexity and Period of LFSR Sequences
Orhun Kara
Cryptanalysis of Cho et al.'s Protocol: A Hash-Based RFID Tag Mutual Authentication Protocol
Masoumeh Safkhani, Pedro Peris-Lopez, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Nasour Bagheri
Efficient Modular Arithmetic for SIMD Devices PDF
Wilke Trei
Experimental Evaluation of Success Probability and Data Complexity of Linear Attacks on Hardware
Andrey Bogdanov, Elif Bilge Kavun, Elmar Tischhauser, Tolga Yalçın
Supersingular Algebraic Curves in Cryptography and Coding Theory
32 × 32
pq
Gary McGuire
Pairings PDF
Florian Hess
Cryptographic Hash Functions: Successes and Failures PDF
Bart Preneel
An overview of Discrete Log and Trace Based Public Key Cryptography on Finite Fields
Ersan Akyıldız, Muhammad Ashraf
ASELSAN's Cyber Security Solutions PDF
Yaşar Özüm
Scientific Computing
Multi-Objectives Optimization of Milling Parameters Using Nelder and Mead Method
Nafissa Zeghichi, E. H. Achouri
Solutions of Initial and Boundary Value Problems by the Variational Iteration Method
Derya Altıntan, Ömür Uğur
Logistic Equation with Stochastic Modelling Approach PDF
Derya Altıntan, Ömür Uğur
Multidimensional Characteristic-based Upwind Finite Volume Method for Incompressible Flows on Unstructured Grids
mir yoseph hashemi, K Zamzamian
Neural Networks with Different Types of Discontinuities PDF
Enes Yılmaz, Marat Akhmet
DRBEM solution of MHD free convection in a square cavity filled with a porous medium
Bengisen Pekmen, Münevver Tezer-Sezgin
An aggregation based algebraic multigrid method for convection diffusion problems
Sana Chaabane Khelifi, Namane Mechitoua, Frank Hulsemann, Frédéric MAGOULES
Towards a Characterization of Difficult Instances of the Bin Packing Problem
Joaquín Pérez, David Romero, Adriana Mexicano-Santoyo, Laura Cruz
Numeric and mesh algorithms for the Coxeter spectral study of positive edge-bipartite graphs and their isotropy groups
Rafal Piotr Bocian, D. Simson, Mariusz Felisiak
IDR(s) for linear equations with multiple right-hand sides PDF
Kuniyoshi Abe, Gerard L. G. Sleijpen
DRBEM Solution of MHD Pipe Flow in a Conducting Medium PDF
Selçuk Han Aydın, Münevver Tezer-Sezgin
Adaptive Discontinuous Symmetric Interior Penalty Galerkin (SIPG) method for Convection Dominated Distributed Optimal Control Problems
Bülent Karasözen, Hamdullah Yücel
Biofluid flow in a channel with stenosis PDF
Önder Türk, Münevver Tezer-Sezgin, Canan Bozkaya
Variants of BiCGSafe method using shadow three-term recurrence
Seiji Fujino, Takashi Sekimoto
Numerical solution of mixed convection flow of nanofluids in a lid-driven square cavity with a discrete heater
Sevin Gümgüm, Münevver Tezer-Sezgin
Numerical Methods for Modelling of Dynamic Responses in Building Insulation as Experimental Measurement Results
Anna Antonyová, Peter Antony
Minimizing Roundtrip Response Time in Distributed Databases with Vertical Fragmentation
Rodolfo Pazos, Graciela Vazquez, Jose Martinez, Joaquín Pérez, Juan Gonzalez
Dependent Optimal Control Problems by Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
Tuğba Akman, Hamdullah Yücel, Bülent Karasözen
Comparisons and Applications of Symmetrical Iterative Splitting Method
Gamze Tanoğlu, Sıla Korkut
All-at-once method for the optimal control of Burgers equation
Fikriye Nuray Yılmaz
Numerical analysis of supersonic- subsonic flow in the convergent- divergent nozzle along with the shock and comparison with analytical results
Ali Kargar
DRBEM Formulation with Fractional Step in Time for Solving Backward-Facing Step Flow
Ayşe Sarıaydın, Münevver Tezer-Sezgin
Enhancing Parallelism in Monte Carlo Techniques for Solving Large Sparse Linear Systems
Murat Gençtav, Murat Manguoğlu
Capacitor Bank Resizing Using Genetic Algorithm in Islanded Power Grid Fed by Induction Generator
Saliha Boutora, Hamid Bentarzi
Computational Study of Incompressible Turbulent Flows with Method of Characteristics
Ali Atashbar Orang, Seyed Esmail Razavi
Optimal Error Estimate of a Finite Element Method for The Impulse Control Quasi-variational Inequality
Messaoud Boulbrachene
Application of Splines to Three-dimensional Map Building for Mobile Robot
Hadjira Belaidi, Hamid Bentarzi, Abderrahmane Belaidi
RMARS: Robustification of Multivariate Adaptive Regression Spline, and an Application in Finance
Ayşe Özmen, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber
Estimation of Hurst Parameter of Fractional Brownian Motion Using CMARS Method
Fatma Yerlikaya Özkurt, Ceren Vardar Acar, Yeliz Yolcu Okur, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber
Approximate Method for solving boundary value problems for nonlinear difference equations with ``maxima''
Snezhana Hristova, Angel Golev, Kremena Stefanova
Streamwise oscillations of a cylinder beneath a free surface: Free surface effects on fluid forces
Canan Bozkaya, Serpil Kocabıyık
An Adaptive Threshold Estimation Scheme for Abrupt Changes Detection Algorithm in a Cement Rotary Kiln
Abdelmalek Kouadri, Abderazak Bensmail, Aissa Kheldoun
Recursion relations and infinite product representation for the solution of Sturm-Liouville problem with afinite number of turning points
Hamidreza Marasi, A. Jodayree Akbarfam
Acceleration of the New Iterative Method of Solving the Algebraic Riccati Equation Arising in Transport Theory
Rola El-Moallem, Hassane Sadok
Computational Analysis of Longitudinal and Lateral Position of Trimaran Side Hulls on Residuary Resistance and Wave Patterns
Amir Hossein Nikseresht, Hamid Reza Zare
Parallel Implicit DNS of Temporally-Evolving Turbulent Shear Layer Instability
İlyas Yılmaz, F.O. Edis, H. Saygın, L. Davidson
Robust preconditioners for the high-contrast Stokes problem PDF
Burak Aksoylu, Zuhal Ünlü
Variable Step 3-point Block Backward Differentiation Formulas for Solving Stiff ODEs
Naghmeh Abasi, Mohamed Suleiman, Zarina Ibrahim, Hamisu Musa, Faranak Rabiei
A Statistical Predictive Model for Legged Robot Motion: Application to Pose Estimation
Emre Ege, Gökhan Koray Gültekin, Afşar Saranlı
Stability of Cohen-Grossberg Neural Networks with Deviated Argument of Mixed Type
Meltem Alişen, Enes Yılmaz
Analyzing the Long-term Projections of Precipitation Totals via Linear and Nonlinear Time Series Models
Sipan Aslan, Ceylan Yozgatlıgil, Cem İyigün, İnci Batmaz
Formulation of a New Plate Bending Finite Element Based on the Strain Approach
Djamal Hamadi, Said Derbane, Abdelhafid Ounis
ARID-2C: Automated Re-sampling of Imbalanced Data for Binary Classification with Performance Evaluation by Promethee
Berna Bakır Batu, İnci Batmaz, Gülser Köksal
A Simulation Study on the Performances of Homogeneity Tests Applied in Meteorological Studies
Ceyda Yazıcı, Ceylan Yozgatlıgil, İnci Batmaz
The Initial Stages of Gravity Driven Flows PDF
Oğuz Yılmaz, Damla Isıdıcı
A Wave Equation Based Recursive Convolution Formulation of the Frequency Dependent Finite Difference Time Domain Method
Mehmet Burak Özakın, Serkan Aksoy
Bayesian sample size estimation for logistic regression PDF
Anastasia Motrenko, Vadim Strijov, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber
Uniform point sets and the collision test PDF
Giray Ökten, Ahmet Goncu
Stress Intensity Factors of a Circumferential Crack in an Isotropic Curved Beam Using Modified Mapping-Collocation method
Aydin Amireghbali, Demirkan Coker
Convergence analysis of Iterative operator splitting method for Abstract Cauchy Problem
Gamze Tanoğlu, Nurcan Gücüyenen
Electric field integral equation for thin-wire piecewise antennas shape reconstruction
Guido Ala, Pietro Cassarà, Elisa Francomano, Salvatore Ganci
Parallelization of Monte Carlo Based Poisson Solver with Coarray Fortran
Nevsan Şengil, Özgür Tümüklü
Two-dimensional cavitating flow past an oblique plate in a channel
Abdelkader Gasmi
New approach Applied to Simplify Mathematical Model of Complex Industrial Mechanisms
Abdelkader Abdelmoumene, Hamid Bentarzi
Random Mixture PDF
Hajir Homei, Monireh Hamel Darbandi, Aziz Hamel Darbandi
Numerical Simulation Of Thin-Liquid Film Flow On Inclined Palne Using Implicit And Explicit Finite Difference Schemes
Ahmad Tariq Jameel, Asif Hoda, Ahmad Faris Ismail
Dynamics of a logistic type delay differential equation with piecewise constant arguments
Duygu Arugaslan
Uniform Diffracted Fields from a Perfectly Conducting Cylindrical Reflector with Modified Theory of Physical Optics
Cylindrical Reflector with Modified Theory of Physical Optics
Mücahit Sarnık, Uğur Yalçın
Estimations of Maximum Tsunami Wave Heights for Turkish coast under Possible Catastrophic Earthquakes in Black Sea Basin
Raissa Kh. Mazova, Elena A. Kolchina
Mathematical approach and Optimization of Nanometric Base Thickness for an SiGeC HBT Dedicated to the Radiofrequency
Maya Lakhdara, Saida LATRECHE, Mahmoud Riad BEGHOUL, Christian GONTRAND
A Cellular Automaton Based 2-D Electromechanical Heart Tissue Model
Ceren Bora, Yeşim Serinağaoğlu, Ergin Tönük
Bubble and Multiscale Stabilization of Bilinear Finite Element Methods for Transient Advection Diffusion Equations on Rectangular Grids
Onur Baysal
A Parametric Study of Transition in Fluid Flow using Solenoidal Bases
Hakan I. Tarman, Bahadır Çor
In Microwave Imaging Inverse Scattering: A Robust Tool for Early Stage Breast Cancer Detection
Muhammad Hassan Khalil, Muhammad Salman, Tsolmon Tumenjargal, Jia Dong Xu
A Comparative Study on Modeling a Nonlinear Static System by Using Identification Techniques
Orkun Öğücü, Afşar Saranlı
A mesh-less Method for Unsteady Compressible Flow Calculations
A. Jahangirian, S. Sattarzadeh, Mir Yoseph Hashemi
Zeros of quadratic matrix polynomials PDF
Drahoslava Janovska, Gerhard Opfer
Homotopy analysis method for asymptotic distributions of an non-definite eigenvalue problem
Hamidreza Marasi
Adaptive multilevel finite element methods in virtual medicine
Peter Deuflhard
MILP and the Inventory Routing Problem PDF
M. Grazia Speranza
Optimal Control of the Bidomain Equations PDF
Karl Kunisch, Ch. Nagaiah, G. Plank, M. Wagner
Financial Mathematics
Some Bounds on the Expected Values of Supremum and of Maximum Loss of Fractional Brownian Motion Using
Discretization Method
Hatice Çakar, Ceren Vardar Acar
Efficient Simulation of a Multi-factor Stochastic Volatility Model
Ahmet Göncü, Giray Ökten
Monetary Regulation for Financial Contagion: The Role of Policy Coordination
Erdem Kılıç, Veysel Ulusoy
Continuous-time modeling of stock exchange markets: A COGARCH(1,1) application
Yavuz Yıldırım, Gazanfer Ünal
Stochastic interest rate modelling with continuous-time GARCH(1,1) model
Selçuk Bayracı, Gazanfer Ünal
An Analysis and Modeling Approach on Default Risks for Mortgage Loan Lending
Ömer L. Gebizlioğlu, Belma Öztürkkal
A Simple, Adjustably Robust, Dynamic Portfolio Policy under Expected Return Ambiguity
Mustafa Ç. Pınar
Pricing Default and Financial Distress Risks in Foreign Currency Corporate Loans in Turkey
Aycan Yılmaz, Işıl Erol
Optimal Control of Stochastic Hybrid System with Jumps: A Numerical Approximation
Büşra Zeynep Temoçin, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber
Bond and Swap pricing with interest rates driven by fBm PDF
Gazanfer Ünal, Selçuk Bayracı
The Alexia solution for Talmudic problems PDF
Sırma Zeynep Alparslan Gök, Ahmet Sarıarslan
Stochastic Credit Default Swap Pricing PDF
İsmail Hakkı Gökgöz, Yeliz Yolcu Okur, Ömür Uğur
A Pricing Formula for Constant Proportion Debt Obligations: A Laplace Transform Approach
Ayşegül İşcanoğlu Çekiç, Ralf Korn, Ömür Uğur
Pricing and Hedging of Inflation-indexed Bonds in an Affine Framework
Zehra Ekşi Altay, Damir Filipović
Stochastic modeling of day-ahead electricity prices in the Turkish market
İrem Talaslı, Azize Hayfavi
Delegated Portfolio Management with Ambiguity Aversion PDF
Annalisa Fabretti, Stefano Herzel, Mustafa Ç. Pınar
Delta Hedging in Discrete Time under Stochastic Interest Rate
Flavio Angelini, Stefano Herzel
An affine framework for the joint modelling of equity and credit risk
Claudio Fontana, Juan Miguel A. Montes
The Analysis of Price-Volatility Feedback rate and Leverage effect using High-Frequency Data
Alper İnkaya, Yeliz Yolcu Okur
Generation for optimization in , with applications in portfolio insurance
farnaz solatikia, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber
Approximating Stochastic Volatility by Recombinant Trees PDF
Erdinç Akyıldırım, Yan Dolinsky, H. Mete Soner
Portfolio optimization in an incomplete market with stochastic interest rate
Bogdan Iftimie, Monique Jeanblanc, Thomas Lim, Hai-Nam Nguyen
Analysis of Portfolio Diversification Between REIT Assets PDF
Patrick Rees, A. Sevtap Selçuk-Kestel
Mountain situations with interval data PDF
Osman Palancı, Sırma Zeynep Alparslan Gök, Hakan Güler, Mehmet Onur Olgun
The mean value premium principle revisited PDF
Marc Goovaerts, Daniël Linders, Koen Van Weert, Fatih Tank
Multidefault Setting PDF
Monique Jeanblanc, Nicole El Karoui, Ying Jiao
Interest rate guarantees in life insurance: contracts, hedging and problems
Ralf Korn
Forward-backward stochastic differential games and optimal portfolio under model uncertainty
Bernt Øksendal, Agnes Sulem
Solution examples of an impulse control problem PDF
Rim Amami, Monique Pontier
A Maximum Principle for Infinite Horizon Delay Equations PDF
Nacira Agram, Sven Haadam, Bernt Øksendal, Frank Proske
Proske
Price and Risk PDF
H. Mete Soner
Actuarial Sciences
How does the Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool data behave as Extremes?
B. Burçak Başbuğ Erkan
Spatial Analysis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) on The Basis of Provinces in Turkey with Regards to Actuarial Risk Assessments
Sezgin Çiftçi, H. Şebnem Düzgün, B. Burçak Başbuğ Erkan
On Concomitants of Order Statistics for Bivariate Pseudo-Gompertz Disribution
Ömer L. Gebizlioğlu, Serap Yörübulut
Basis Risk Comparison of Bayesian based Wheat Yield PDF
Kasırga Yıldırak, Ozan Omer Evkaya
Global Retirement Crisis and the Four Pillars System PDF
Krzysztof Ostaszewski
Other Papers
The fractional Fourier transform and its applications PDF
Akhilesh Prasad, Santanu Manna, Ashutosh Mahato
An Optimization-Based Systematic Procedure for Political Districting
Hayri Önal, Kevin Patrick
Weight Monte Carlo Algorithms for the Parametric Analysis of the Solution to Monodisperse Coagulation Equation
Mariya Korotchenko, Aleksandr Burmistrov
Monte Carlo Algorithm for Acceleration Oriented Traffic Flow Model
Aleksandr Burmistrov
Boundary Value Problems for Nonlinear Impulsive Hamiltonian Systems
Gusein Sh. Guseinov
Partial Decoupling of a Class of Linear Systems of Partial Differential Equations
Mohamed Salah Boudellioua
Optimization of First Generation Crone Approximated Fractional-order PID Controller by using Charged System Search
O. Tolga Altınöz, A. Egemen Yılmaz, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber
A Candidate List Extension for Ant Colony System Solution of the VRP with Time Windows
Hector Fraire Huacuja, Juan Gonzalez Barbosa, Claudia Gomez Santillan, Laura Cruz Reyes, Rodolfo Pazos, Ricardo Camara Covarrubias, Juan Herrera Ortiz
Positive solutions for systems of higher-order multi-point boundary value problems
Johnny Henderson, Rodica Luca
Limited codifferential method for nonsmooth convex optimization problems
Ali Hakan TOR, Adil Bagirov, Bülent Karasözen
Boundedness of pseudo-differential operator associated with fractional Hankel transform
Vishal Kumar Singh, Akhilesh Prasad
Solving 0-1 Quadratic Knapsack Problems with a Population-based Artificial Fish Swarm Algorithm
Md. Abul Kalam Azad, Ana Maria A. C. Rocha, Edite M.G.P. Fernandes
Initialization Phase of the Gravitational Search Algorithm by means of Low-Discrepancy Sobol Quasi-Random Number
means of Low-Discrepancy Sobol Quasi-Random Number Sequence
O. Tolga Altınöz, A. Egemen Yılmaz, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber
Monotone positive solutions of nonlinearly perturbed second-order self-adjoint differential equations
Türker Ertem, Ağacık Zafer
Algorithmic Analysis of Clinical and Neuropsychological Data in Localization-Related Epilepsy
Masoud Latifi-Navid, Kost Elisevich, Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh
Stopping Rules Effect on a Derivative-Free Filter Multistart Algorithm for Multilocal Programming
Florbela P. Fernandes, M. Fernanda P. Costa, Edite M.G.P. Fernandes
On a Hyperbolic Augmented Lagrangian Artificial Fish Swarm Based Method: Convergence Issues
Ana Maria A. C. Rocha, M. Fernanda P. Costa, Edite M.G.P. Fernandes
Numerical Solution of Second-Order Ordinary Differential Equations by Improved Runge-Kutta Nystrom Method of Order Five
Faranak Rabiei, Fudziah Ismail, Sarkhosh Seddighi
Flow structures in an L-shaped cavity with the vertical motion of the upper lid
Ali Deliceoğlu, Selçuk Han Aydın
Necessary Condition of Optimality for Stochastic Switching Systems with Controlled Diffusion
Charkaz Arif Aghayeva
What are the Sources of the Fire of Hot Money: An Example of Emerging Country, Turkey
Emre Can, Ali Sabri Taylan
Affine harmonic maps that naturally occur in information geometry
Fatma Muazzez Şimşir
Some limit formulas of the q-Racah polynomials PDF
Rezan Sevinik Adıgüzel, Renato Alvarez-Nodarse
A Nonlinear Dynamic Strategy for Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Stabilized Platform in Planar Motion in One Body and Three Bodies
Babak Rohani, Emre Akgül, Mehmet Mutlu, Afşar Saranlı, Yiğit Yazıcıoğlu
Approximation of Conjugate of Functions (Signals) Belonging to Weighted Lipchitz Class by Hausdorff Means of Conjugate Fourier Series
Uaday Singh, Shailesh Kumar Srivastava
Boundedness of some pseudo-differential operators on generalized Besov-type spaces
Aissa Djeriou
A new approach for solving fuzzy linear time invariant controlled system with fuzzy coefficients
Marzieh Najariyan, Mohamad Hadi Farahi
Middle East Technical University
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