In the past decade, ontologies have been widely used in the field of e-learning in order to create a semantic representation of knowledge and to provide a uniform structure to the course material. In order to provide a semantic representation of knowledge, this paper delineates a framework that...

Micro–macro models associate the coarse-grained molecular scale of the kinetic theory to the macroscopic scale of continuum mechanics. The conservation equations are solved along with the microscopic equation or the so-called Fokker–Planck equation. In this paper, a micro–macro approach...

The aim of this paper is to provide a detailed econometric analysis of the changes in the nominal exchange rate, inflation rate, nominal interest rate and the real gross domestic product in Turkey for the period from January 1987 to December 2007, based on the monthly data. To this end, both...

In the wake of the financial crisis it has become clear that there is a need for macroprudential oversight in addition to the existing microprudential banking supervision. One of the lessons from the crisis is that the network structure of the banking system has to be taken into account to...

In global competition, the Internet turned out to be the single and hegemonial infrastructure for communication. It has become the “nervous system” of today’s networked economy. While the first phase provided communication services, like e-mail, the WWW has established an interactive...

Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) involve the collaboration between the public sector providers of goods and, more specifically, services and private sector counterparts. The arrangement is one component of a wider initiative which has been taken place across both developing and developed...

Determination of the stability behavior of a queueing network is an important part of analyzing such systems. Gamarnik and Hasenbein (2005) have shown that if a fluid network has the finite decomposition property (FDP) and is not weakly stable, then any queueing network associated with the fluid...

In this study an attempt is made to investigate the impact of the urban heat island (UHI) effect on the energy consumption of a building using both, an accurate, extensively validated, transient simulation model and a neural network one. The energy consumption is calculated for a typical...