CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Nihan Kesim Çiçekli

 

Associate Professor                                               Phone: (90) 312 210 5582

Department of Computer Engineering            Fax: (90) 312 210 5544

Middle East Technical University (METU)              E-mail: nihan@ceng.metu.edu.tr

Ankara, 06531, TURKEY                                      http://www.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~nihan

 

Education

 

Ph.D., Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, March 1993,  London, U.K.

M.S., Computer Engineering and Information Sciences, July 1988, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey 

B.S., Computer Engineering, July 1986,  Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

 

University Employment

 

Assoc. Professor: (Aug. 2006 - ) Department of Computer Engineering, METU, Ankara, Turkey.

Assistant Professor: (June '98-Aug. 06 ) Department of Computer Engineering, METU, Ankara, Turkey.

Visiting Associate Professor: (Aug '01-Aug 03 ) Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA (sabbatical).

Assistant Professor: (September '93- January'98 ) Department of International Relations, Bilkent Univerity, Ankara, Turkey.

Teaching Assistant: (September’86-September’89) Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

 

Research Areas

 

Multimedia databases, digital libraries, semantic web, web services, event calculus.

 

Teaching

 

Undergraduate Level:

Data Structures and Algorithms

          File Structures and Data Management

Database Management Systems

Logic for Computer Science

C Programming

Graduate Level:

Database Management Systems

Distributed Databases

 

Awards

 

The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) Scholarship (provided by N.A.T.O.) for a Ph.D. study in the U.K., from 10/1989 to 10/1992.

ODTÜ Prof. Dr. Mustafa Parlar Eğitim ve Araştırma Vakfı, ODTÜ Yılın Eğitimcisi Ödülü, 2004.

 

Publications

 

  • Cicekli, N.K., I. Cicekli, Formalizing the specification and execution of workflows using the event calculus, 2005, Information Sciences, vol. 176, no. 15, 2006, pp. 2227-2267.

 

  • Cicekli, I.,  N.K. Cicekli, Generalizing predicates with string arguments, 2005, Applied Intelligence, vol. 25., No 1, 2006, pp.23-36.

 

  • Nihan K. Cicekli, Ahmet Cosar, Asuman Dogac, Faruk Polat, Pinar Senkul, I. Hakki Toroslu and Adnan Yazici, Data Management Research at the Middle East Technical University, ACM Sigmod Record, Volume 34, Number 3, September 2005.

 

  • Erozel, G., N.K.Cicekli, I. Cicekli, Natural Language Interface on a Video Data Model, Proceedings of IASTED DBA 2005, Austria.

 

  • Koprulu, M., N.K. Cicekli, A. Yazici, Spatio-temporal Querying in Video Databases, Information Sciences, 160, pp. 131-152, 2004.

 

  • Cicekli, I., N.K. Cicekli and E. Gelenbe, (eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS XVII), Orlando, FL, USA, CRC Press, 2002.

 

  • Koc, O., F.N. Alpaslan and N.K. Cicekli, Visualizing Transition Diagrams of Action Language Programs, Proc. of the 17th Intl. Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS’2002), October 2002, Orlando, Forida, USA, pp. 181-186.

 

  • Koprulu, M., N.K. Cicekli and A. Yazici, Spatio-Temporal Querying in Video Databases, Proc. of the Sixth International Conf. on Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS’2002), Denmark, Oct 2002.

 

  • Kacar, E. and N.K. Cicekli, Discovering Fuzzy Spatial Association Rules, SPIE’s 16th Annual Intl. Symposium on Aerospace/Defense sensing, Simulation and Controls, Conference on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: Theory, Tools, and Technology, Orlando, April 2002.

 

  • Koksal, P., N.K. Cicekli and H. Toroslu, Specification of Workflow Processes using the Action Description Language C, AAAI Spring 2001 Symposium Series: Answer Set Programming, Palo Alto, California, March 2001, pp. 103-109.

 

  • Cicekli, N. K. and Y. Yildirim, Formalizing Workflows using the Event Calculus, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1873, M. Ibrahim, J. Kung and N. Revell (eds.), Database and Expert Systems Applications, Proceedings of the 11th Intl.Conf., DEXA 2000, London, UK, September 2000, pp. 222-231.

 

  • Çiçekli, Nihan Kesim, A Temporal Reasoning Approach to Model Workflow Activities, LNCS 1649, Ron Pinter and Shalom Tsur (eds.), NGITS'99, Zikhron-Yaakov, Israel, July 1999.

 

  • Kesim, F.N. and Sergot, M., Implementing an Object-Oriented Deductive Database Using Temporal Reasoning, Journal of Database Management, Vol. 7, No. 4, 1996.

 

  • Kesim, F.N. and Sergot, M., A Logic Programming Framework for Modelling Temporal Objects, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 8, no. 5, October 1996.

 

  • Çiçekli, Nihan Kesim, A Temporal Reasoning Approach to Knowledge-based Simulations, Proceedings of the 11th Intl. Symp. on Computer and Information Sciences, Antalya, Turkey, 1996.

 

  • Kesim, F.N., Sergot, M.J.,  Schema Evolution in a Deductive Framework, Proc. of DOOD’95 Post-Conference Workshop on Temporal Reasoning in DOOD, December 1995, Singapore, pg. 69-74.

 

  • Dogac, A., Kilic, E., Ozhan, G., Dengi, C., Kesim, N., Koksal, P., Experiences in Using CORBA for a Multidatabase Implementation, 6th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, Workshop presentation, London, September 1995.

 

  • Dogac.,A., Dengi, C., Kilic, E., Ozhan, G., Ozcan, F., Nural, S., Evrendilek, C.,  Halici, U.,Arpinar, B., Koksal, P., Kesim, N., Mancuhan, S., METU Interoperable Database System, In ACM SIGMOD Record, Vol.24, No.3, September 1995.

 

  • Kesim, F.N., Evolution of Objects and the Schema in Deductive Databases, In the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Antalya, October 1994.

 

  • Kesim, F. N., Sergot, M., Versioning of Objects in Deductive Databases, In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases, Arizona, December 1993.

 

  • Kesim, F. N., Temporal Objects in Deductive Databases, Ph.D. Thesis, Imperial College, London, 1993.

 

  • Kesim, F.N., Sergot, M., On the Evolution of Objects in a Logic Programming Framework, In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Fifth Generation Computer Systems, Tokyo, Japan, June 1992.

 

  • Kesim, N., Sergot, M., On the Dynamics of Objects in a Logic Programming Framework, ICLP'92 Preconference Workshop on Merging Object-Oriented and Logic Programming, June 1991.

 

  • Kesim, F.N., An Object Memory for an Object-Oriented Database Management System, M.S. Thesis, Bilkent University, Ankara, July 1988.

 

  • Ozelci, S., Kesim, N., Karaorman, M., Arkun, E., An Experimental Object-Oriented Database Management System Prototype, In the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, October 1988, Cesme, Izmir.