M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • Usage of current mobile marketing services and evaluation of potential future applications 
    Akın, Berna. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    Mobile technology develops and penetration of mobile phones increases all around the world. Developments in mobile communications affected other business areas, like marketing. A new era has been opened with the development ...
  • A web-based group decision support system for supplier evaluation and selection 
    Sürgit, Onur Eren. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    Supplier selection is one of the vital processes which have an impact on the competitiveness of firms by affecting their costs, the quality of goods and services produced, and customer satisfaction. Suppliers’ evaluation ...
  • An unsupervised semantic similarity based method for word sense disambiguation 
    Çankaya, Sedat. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    In this thesis, a semantic similarity based unsupervised method for word sense disambiguation is presented. The method tries to disambiguate a target word by calculating a similarity score between the words surrounding the ...
  • Private pension decision support system 
    Dursunluer, Emre. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This study provides current and prospective private pension system participants with a web-based interactive decision support system that evaluates private pension funds or pension portfolio performance by using risk ...
  • Analysis and applications of data mining algorithms 
    Doğan, Neslihan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    Classification algorithms are the most commonly used Data Mining models that are widely used to extract valuable knowledge from huge amounts of data. Comparing the classification algorithms has been interesting the data ...
  • Readers' expectations, perceptions, preferences and loyalty towards online newspapers 
    Utku, Deniz. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Online newspaper readership is the most popular activity among the fast growing Turkish Internet users population. Competition is high and every newspaper website has to deliver news every day, every second. On the other ...
  • Development of a task information fit model: A study of relationship between task, information and individual performance 
    Çayır, Sinan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    In the world of Information Technologies the question of finding the best solution for particular business needs is ongoing debate for decades. This debate evolves with the development of technology. Effects of this spiral ...
  • A framework for integrating knowledge management and decision support systems by using knowledge discovery techniques: a case study forecasting financial time series 
    Gülser, Zarife Gonca. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    In a typical decision support environment, the decision-making process deploys asmall portion of the needed information that exists on computers and the structures of thedecision models are highly generalized for each of ...
  • Exploration of mobile service adoption: Special focus on adaptivity 
    Polat, Ebru. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    Quick and easy information access is enabled via developing internet technologies and shrinking mobile devices. It is possible to reach any information at any time by use of hand held devices. Hence, services supporting ...
  • A study on sequential internet auctions using agent-based modeling approach 
    Akkaya, Yıldız. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    With widespread use of the Internet, Internet auctions (e-auctions) become more popular in order to trade increasing number of goods as Internet provides both almost perfect market information and an infrastructure for ...
  • Exploring the adoption of technology assisted services in the health care industry 
    Topaçan, Ümit. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    With the rapid development of medical technologies, medical industry benefit from various new emergent tools in order to increase quality and lower health expenditures in their services. Telemedicine is one of the recent ...
  • Consumer attitudes toward and acceptance of personalization attempts in the online environment 
    Albayrak, Serkan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    By the extended use of Internet; technology and dynamic interaction for the first time makes personalization cost effective at large-scale. It also offers the possibility to provide personalized products and services at ...
  • Impacts of service oriented architecture (SOA) on enterprise systems and organizational structures 
    Birekul, İhsan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    In today’s fast-paced global economy, organizations need to be focusing on becoming agile and flexible enough support dynamically changing business requirements in this on demand environment. One of the most critical steps ...
  • An association rule-based recommendation engine for online dating sites 
    Özseyhan, Yağız Civan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    In this study, the database of a Turkish online dating site is analyzed to reveal patterns in the personal features of matching couples. By using a functionality of data mining, the Association Rule mining, a set of rules ...
  • The impact of speech recognition systems on business effectiveness 
    Aytekin, Nedim Cem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    The main purpose of this study is to examine the effects of speech-enabled interactive voice response systems in contact centers, specifically in Turkey. In order to perform this analysis, data was collected from two Turkish ...
  • Test of Elliot Wave theory by time series segmentation algorithms 
    Çağatay, Tamer. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Discovering the patterns of stock prices in a volatile and rapidly-changing market environment is a challenging problem. Elliot Wave theory, a form of technical analysis, attempts to investigate market price movements. The ...
  • Marketing-wise benefits of technological improvements on consumer well-being 
    Kardeş, Nur Esra. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    In recent years, emerging web-based innovations lead very fast penetration of technology in various domains of life. Immediate adoption of technology by companies also has an impact on this diffusion. This is because ...
  • Development of a decision support system for evaluation of business process management systems 
    Cingil, İsmail. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Owing to the fact that product assortment has been increased and product life cycle period has been decreased, surviving in this competitive market is not easy and may result in commercial failures for the organizations ...
  • Web 2.0 and SOA based application development 
    Büyüktanır, Barış. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    As Internet usage increases and web technologies evolve, more and more people start using software over the Internet. The gap between the web and desktop applications decreases due to the fact that the usage of the software ...
  • Implementation difficulties of hospital information systems: a case study in a private hospital in Turkey 
    Sağıroğlu, Yaşar Özge. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    This thesis looks for potential sources of implementation difficulties of hospital information system in a private hospital in Turkey and provides recommendations toavoid these difficulties. Increasing cost of patient care ...

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