Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü: Recent submissions

  • WEB mining issues: topic finding and focused crawling evaluation 
    Uluhan, Eray. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    Web mining is defined as the process of using data mining techniques to automatically discover and extract information from semi-or unstructured Web documents and services. This study on Web mining consists of two sections, ...
  • Agent-based modelling and simulation of collaborative content creation: the curious case of Wikipedia 
    Taşan, Erşan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    Wikipedia is no doubt one of the most important collaborative informational products of human history. The collaborative effort that produces Wikipedia is of fundamental importance because the community includes anonymous, ...
  • Estimating defaults in organized security lending markets: an empirical study on a default indicator 
    Ösken, Latif Cem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    Security lending is a simple financial transaction that leads to credit risk like every other lending transaction. This thesis aims to analyse the dynamics of the security lending process and lending markets in order to ...
  • The technical challenges of cloud computing and their effects on usage 
    Baktır, Ahmet Cihat. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    Cloud computing is a computer technology that enable convenient, on demand and pay-as-you-go access to a pool of shared resources. Recently, cloud computing is taken into consideration by the companies that operate in many ...
  • Empirical and simulation based analysis of detailing activities of a pharmaceutical company in Turkey 
    Demirbacak, Nuri Sezay. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    In this thesis, the impact of detailing activities on prescription behaviour of physicians and their carryover effects are studied using the geographic location based sales and detailing activity data of five products from ...
  • Significant and relevant factors that can affect the sustainability of mobile learning 
    Coşkun Setirek, Abide. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    Educational leaders are concerned about whether m-learning initiatives can address current educational needs and intent of m-learning, have potential to be adopted by users, maintain a certain condition indefinitely or ...
  • Factors affecting expectations and intentions of university students mobile phone use in educational contexts 
    Dişci, Davut. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    The aim of this study is to find the factors affecting expectations and intentions of university students‟ mobile phone use in educational contexts. According to the literature, Mobile Addiction, Parental Surveillance- ...
  • Organizational adoption of enterprise resource planning systems 
    Kerimoğlu, Onur. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    Although Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are being used widelyall around the world, they bring along many problems as well as benefits. Most ofthese implementations are failures and inadequate adoption is just ...
  • Factors affecting customer satisfaction and loyalty in mobile banking in Turkey 
    Çetin, Abdullah Sait. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    In the last three decades mobile phones rapidly spread all around the world. As mobile internet became available and mobile networks improved with 3G technology, mobile phones evolved into smart phones. In early 2000s, ...
  • Investigating the instructors' attitudes towards the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in higher education 
    Akşit, Osman. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    The aim of this study is to investigate the instructors’ attitudes towards the use of ICT in education and to explore differences in the attitudes between instructors who are grouped according to six demographic variables: ...
  • Evaluating and designing an internal control system for information systems processes using control self-assessment, 2014 
    Yıldırım, Tuğba. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    Information systems take its crucial role in the heart of business life today. Most of the business operations are held via information technology. Achievement of business objectives are strictly related with information ...
  • Factors affecting the usage of social CRM applications 
    Can, Mehmet Nuri. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    Improvements on internet changed many things in our lives and social media is one of the important changes that happenED. Today, several people spend significant amount of time on social networking sites. This situation ...
  • A decision support system for air cargo warehouse design 
    Karaismailoğlu, Adnan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    Warehouse design is critical in the air cargo industry, where the service standards are high and the competition is getting harder. The designers of air cargo warehouses consider various criteria like costs, system failure ...
  • Effects of serious games on team building in a multi-user virtual environment 
    Bozanta, Aysun. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    The aim of this study is measuring the effects of serious game on team building in a multi-user virtual environment. For this purpose serious game Zoom which has been used in real life for team building was adapted into ...
  • The effect of game environments and students’ computer literacy perceptions on their learning of multimedia design principles and learning environment selection 
    Ak, Oğuz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    Although games are typically thought of as a good potential medium for learning, their effectiveness in educational settings has been largely insufficiently studied. This study was conducted on the Faculty of Education ...
  • Attitudes and behaviour of young mobile phone users case of Turkey 
    Ökten, Nurdan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    Wireless devices especially mobile phones gained popularity among a wide variety of users because it gives communication freedom to individuals in their daily lives. Last century‟s reports show that behaviors and attitudes ...
  • Turkish electricity market simulation game 
    Aydın, Alp Eren. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    Turkish Electricity Market Simulation Game is designed to inform people about the basics of the Turkish electricity market and give them chance to train themselves in the real market conditions by using serious game ...
  • A web based multi-criteria decision support system for department selection process of vocational high school students 
    Coşkun, Mustafa. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    Education Management Information Systems have been going under direct mutation in Turkey during last decade. In this manner, educational data mining becomes very essential to be discussed with the data gathered by those ...
  • Adoption factors of electronic health record systems 
    Kök, Orhun Mustafa. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    Today’s rapidly changing regulations, increasing healthcare costs and most importantly, globalization has made health record keeping an important issue. Electronic Health Record systems are on the rise as a crucial and ...
  • Analyzing factors affecting the adoption of cloud computing: a structural equation modeling approach 
    Arı, Ezgi. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    Cloud computing is a new and upcoming technology in Turkey. It is also a new business model for companies. Companies begin to invest in cloud computing with the expectation that this new technology will improve their ...