Title: Prof. Dr.Department: Industrial Engineering DepartmentPosition: Academic StaffEmail: melek.basak@yeditepe.edu.trTelephone: 0216 578 0500Office: Müh. A-901Time: Full TimeAkademikResumeEducation Ph.D. : Marmara University, Department of Econometric M.Sc. : Hacettepe University, Department of Statistics B.Sc. : Middle East Technical University, Department of Mathematics Courses ISE 323 Probabilistic Models in OR ISE 432 Decision Theory ESYE 550 Fuzzy Set Theory and Applications ESYE 565 Modeling and Decision Making in Industrial Systems CSE 569 Expert Systems & Fuzzy Logic Research Interest Decision Theory, Fuzzy Set Theory, Probabilistic Uncertainty Projects Economic Costs of Violence against Young Children in Turkey Sustainable Management and Quality of Water PublicationsJournal Papers Demirel, D.F., Basak, M,“A Fuzzy Bi-level Method for Modeling Age-Specific Migration” Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. Volume 68, December 2019. L. Özdamar, M. Demirhan, E. Onbasioglu, Pre-search Screening: A Technique to Improve Search Efficiency in Global Optimization,Frontiers in Global Optimization, pp. 437-457, Kluwer Academic Pub., 2004, The Netherlands. Demirhan Başak M., Özpınar A., Özdamar L.. Performance evaluation of spatial interpolation methods in the presence of noise”. Int. Journal of Remote Sensing, V 24/6, 1237-1258 2003. Demirhan M., Özdamar L., Integrating Expert Knowledge in Environmental Site Characterization, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. V 36, 344-351, 2001. L. Özdamar, M. Demirhan, “Comparison of Partition Evaluation Measures in an Adaptive Partitioning Algorithm for Global Optimization”, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 117/1, 47-60, 2001. Özdamar L., Demirhan M., A. Özpınar A., Kılanç B.,”A Fuzzy Areal Assessment Approach for Potentially Contaminated Sites”, Computers and Geoscience, V.26, 309-318, 2000. L. Özdamar, M. Demirhan, “Experiments with new probabilistic search methods in global optimization”, Computers and Operations Research, 27, 841-865, 2000. Özdamar L., Demirhan M., Özpınar A., “A Comparison of spatial interpolation methods and a fuzzy areal assessment scheme in environmental site characterization”, Computers, Environment and Urban Planning, V. 23, 399-422, 1999. M. Demirhan, L. Özdamar, “A note on the use of a fuzzy approach in adaptive partitioning algorithms for global optimization”, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 7 (4), 468-475, 1999. M. Demirhan, L. Özdamar, L. Helvacioglu, S. I. Birbil, “FRACTOP: A Geometric partitioning metaheuristic for global optimization”, Journal of Global Optimization, 14, 415-436, 1999. Conference publications Demirel, D.F., and Basak, M., “Forecasting International Migration Based on a Hybrid Fuzzy and Bayesian Method”. 29th European Conference on Operational Research, Valencia, Spain (2018). Demirel, D. F., Basak,M, “Migration Modeling via Higher Order Singular Value Decomposition”, KEKAMCONF 2017 – 2nd International Migration in the 21st Century Conference, Istanbul, October 2017 (Accepted to be presented). Demirel, D. F., Basak,M, “A Higher Order Fuzzy Lee-Carter Method for Modeling Human Migration”, The 5th International Fuzzy System Syposium, Ankara, October 2017 (Accepted to be presented). Demirel, D.F., and Basak, M., “Human Mortality and Fertility Modeling with a Fuzzy Approach Based on Singular Value Decomposition Technique”. 8th European Conference on Operational Research, Poznan, Poland (2016). Demirel, D. and Basak, M.. A Modified Fuzzy Lee-Carter Method for Modeling Human Mortality. In Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2015) – Volume 2: FCTA, pages 17-24. ISBN: 978-989-758-157-1. Demirel, D.F., Gonul, E.D., Basak, M., 2013. Economic Costs of Violence against Young Children in Turkey, in: Proceedings of 13th ISPCAN European Regional Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, Dublin, Ireland. Zeynep Ocak, Melek Basak, “Educational Service Quality Assessment in an Engineering Program in Turkey”, International Higher Education Congress: New Trends and Issues, May 2011. M. Demirhan, L. Özdamar, A Fuzzy Adaptive Partitioning Algorithm (FAPA) for Global Optimization. In: Fuzzy Sets Based Heuristics for Optimization, ed: J.L. Verdegay, Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Vol. 126, pp. 37-48, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2003. Ozdamar, L., Demirhan M., “A Fuzzy Partitioned Based Pre-screening Method for Improved Search Efficiency in Global Optimization” 4 th International Conference on Frontiers in Global Optimization Nomikos Center, June 8-12, 2003, Santorini, Greece. L. Özdamar, M. Demirhan, E. Onbasioglu, Pre-search Screening: A Technique to Improve Search Efficiency in Global Optimization, Proc. of Frontiers in Global Optimization, June 2003, Greece. Ozdamar, L., Demirhan M., “A Fuzzy Partitioning Approach in site Characterization” Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery: Computational Intelligence for the E-AgeV1, 81-85, Nov. 2002, Singapore. Ozdamar, L., Demirhan M. “Fuzzy Areal Site Characterization” NICOLE workshop, Info. Comm Technologies, November 2001. Rotterdam, The Netherlands. L. Özdamar, M. Basak, Invited Speaker for PURE: ―Site Assessment: Fuzzy Logics‖, NICOLE Network for Industrially Contaminated Land in Europe, November 2001, Rotterdam, Holland. Demirhan M., Özdamar L., Helvacıoglu L., Birbil I. [1997]. “A Fractal Partitioning Algorithm (with Fuzzy Measures for Optimization)”. Proceedings of 5th European Congress on Intelligent Techniques & Soft Computing; V.1, 29-33, Aachen, Germany, 29-33. Books and book chapters Demirel, D.F., and Basak, M., (2018) Migration Modeling via Higher-Order Singular Value Decomposition. In: Turkan Ipek I.Z, Goularis G. (eds) International Migration and Challenges in the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century. Lexington Books, Lanham, Maryland. Demirel D.F., Basak M. (2017) Human Mortality Modeling with a Fuzzy Approach Based on Singular Value Decomposition Technique. In: Merelo J. et al. (eds) Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 669. Springer, Cham. L. Ozdamar, M. Demirhan, An Efficient Information Retrieval Method for Brownfield Assessment with Sparse Data. in: Computational Intelligence for Modelling and Prediction, Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, eds: Saman Halgamuge and Lipo Wang, Vol. 2, Ch. 25, pp. 355-366, Springer-Verlag, 2005, Germany. L. Özdamar, M. Demirhan, E. Onbasioglu, Pre-search Screening: A Technique to Improve Search Efficiency in Global Optimization, Frontiers in Global Optimization, pp. 437-457, Kluwer Academic Pub., 2004, The Netherlands. L. Özdamar, M. Demirhan, A Fuzzy Adaptive Partitioning Algorithm (FAPA) for Global Optimization: Implementation in Environmental Site Characterization. In: Fuzzy Sets Based Heuristics for Optimization, ed: J.L. Verdegay, Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Vol. 126, pp. 307-316, Springer Verlag, 2003. Conference presentations Basak, M., Demirel, D. F., Gonul, E. D., “Türkiye’de Küçük Çocuklara Yönelik Şiddetin Maliyeti” Türkiye’de 0-8 Yaş Arası Çocuğa Yönelik Aile İçi Şiddet Araştırması Konferansı, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, İstanbul, Mayıs 2014. Conference publications (national) Demirel, D. F., Basak,M, “Doğum Oranı Modellemesi ve Tahmini İçin Bir Bulanık Zaman Serisi Yöntemi” YAEM 2017, Yıldız Technical University, İstanbul, July 2017. Demirel, D. F., Basak, M., “Ölüm oranı tahmini için bir uyarlanmış Lee-Carter modeli” YAEM 2015, ODTÜ, Ankara, Eylül 2015. Toktas, P., Demirhan Basak, M., “Bankacilik Sektöründe basarisizlik tahminine veri madenciligi yaklasimi”, YAEM’04, Haziran 2004. Toktas, P., Demirhan Basak, M., “Risk Analizinde Veri Madenciligi Uygulamalari”, YAEM’04, Haziran 2004. Demirhan M., Sisbot. S , “Yeni bir Mühendislik Dali: Sistem Mühendisligi”, YAEM 2001, Gazi Üniversitesi, Ankara , Temmuz 2001. Demirhan M., Özpinar, A. “Çevre Kirliligi Tespitinde Bulanik Mantiga Dayali bir Yaklasim”, YAEM, Gazi Üniversitesi, Ankara , Temmuz 2001. Tirpanci M., Bodur M., Demirhan M., “Gazete Pazarlamasina Yönelik Bir Saha Çalismasi”, YA/EM Kongresi, Ankara. 1995. Tirpanci M., Bodur M., Demirhan M., “Gazete Alma ve Almama Sebepleri ve Gazete Okuma ve Satin Alma Davranislarinin Analizi”, YA/EM Kongresi, Ankara, 1995. Balci R., Demirhan M., “Servis Kalitesi Karakteristiklerinin Belirlenmesi ve Insan Gücü Planlamasi ile Kalite Seviyesinin Yükseltilmesi Konusunda bir Uygulama” YA/EM Kongresi, Ankara, 1995. Demir M., Demirhan M., “Life Duratrion Forecasting Using Cox Regression”, YA/EM Kongresi, Ankara, 1994. Other publications Basak, M., Demirel, D.F., Gönül-Sezer, E.D., “Economic Cost of Violence against Young Children in Turkey, Technical Report, Publication Code: B-RER-009, Bernard van Leer Foundation, 2014. Demirhan M., “Statistical versus Other methods in Location Identification Problem”, Teknik Rapor, 02-03 99001, Yeditepe Üniversitesi, 1999. Demirhan M., “A Fuzzy Evaluation Scheme for Composite Sampling for Spatially Correlated Data”, Teknik Rapor, 02-03 99002, Yeditepe Üniversitesi, 1999. Demirhan M., “Presence of Dependence in Process Data and Control Charts”. Teknik Rapor, 02-03 98001, Yeditepe Üniversitesi, 1998.