BÜLENT ÖZEL (bulent@cs.bilgi.edu.tr) Dissertation Topic: Scientific
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BÜLENT ÖZEL (bulent@cs.bilgi.edu.tr) Dissertation Topic: Scientific
BÜLENT ÖZEL (bulent@cs.bilgi.edu.tr) Dissertation Topic: Scientific Collaboration Networks Knowledge Diffusion and Fragmentation in Turkish Management Academia (submitted in 2010). Advisor: Beyza Oba Bülent Özel has completed his PhD in Organisation Studies program on July 2010. Before starting the program he had a MSc degree in Computer Engineering, and a BSc degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. As a part of his PhD study, he was granted a visit ing Fulbright scholarship at CASOS (Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems) Research Center of School of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University, USA. During his enrolment to our PhD program he has published in the fields of structures of social collaboration networks, policy guidelines on adoption of open source and free software systems in public institutes, and development of computational methods to study large data on collective knowledge production processes. He is currently working as a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science in Bilgi University and currently doing research on knowledge diffusion via collaboration networks looking at the impact of network structure and socio-cognitive structure of individuals. He concentrates in the field of multi-agent simulation, particularly, attempting to incorporate dynamic social network models as the basis for agent-agent interactions. Thesis Abstract: This study focuses on the interplay between knowledge diffusion and social collaboration structures. First, it elaborates on mutuality of knowledge and social structure theory borrowed from sociology of knowledge literature, where knowledge is perceived as an essentially social and societal category. Second, it develops a coherent research framework which relates cognitive structure and the collaboration patterns into an integrated socioknowledge analysis of a given scientific community. The framework combines and extends meta-network perspective and co-word analysis. A novel model was adopted which maps actors from co-authorship networks into a strategic diagram of scientists. The mapping is based on cohesiveness and pervasiveness of issues each author has published in the field. Third, it adopts a longitudinal approach to trace knowledge diffusion within peculiarity of a national level socio-knowledge system identifying (i) mechanism of knowledge diffusion within the community, (ii) interplay in between scientists socio-knowledge structures and their research strategies, (iii) axes of fragmentation in the community, and (iv) their evolutions over time. According to the exemplary longitudinal case which covers scientific publication activities in Turkish management academia from 1922 until 2008, management knowledge within local community is transferred following patterns of information diffusion rather than patterns of knowledge diffusion found elsewhere at cognitively demanding areas. Besides, publishing in citation indexed international journals reveals formation of cohesive team structures as a mean of collaborative knowledge production and transfer. and While within local diffusion of management knowledge is lead by academicians with certain socioknowledge properties, academicians publishing at international arena do not show any significantly differing socio-cognitive properties, instead, they are merely embedded in strongly connected groups. Leading academicians within local community exhibit a common cognitive structure relative to the rest of the community. They have more social ties and more diversified knowledge compared to the rest. Knowledge they have is distinct compared to their peers in the network, they hold certain part of their knowledge exclusively, thus knowledge-wise they don't resemble the rest, but they keep a level of common knowledge with the rest of the community. Research: Bulent Ozel and Han Woo Park, (2011). "Online Image Content Analysis of Political Figures: An Exploratory Study", Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology (accepted to appear in 2011). Bulent Ozel, Hildrun Kretschmer, and Theo Kretschmer, (2010). "Co-authorship Pair Distribution Patterns and Gender Discrepencies in Turkey", The COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management (accepted to appear in 2011) Mehmet Gencer and Bulent Ozel, (2010). " Agent-Based Modeling of Economic Systems: The EURACE Project Experience", In ECOMOD 2010. Bulent Ozel, Can B. Cilingir, and Kaan Erkan (Eds), (2006)."Towards Open Source Software Adoption: Educational, Public, Legal, and Usability Practices.” ISBN: 9754033730. Bulent Ozel, Uros Jovanovic, Beyza Oba and Manon van Leeuwen, (2007). "Perceptions on F/OSS Adoption” in IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation. Bulent Ozel, (2009). "Knowledge Diffusion and Fragmentation in Political Science Research Networks", In Proc. of Harvard Political Networks Conference, USA, June, 2009. Bulent Ozel, Hildrun Kretschmer, Theo Kretschmer, and Elif Aytek Gürses, (2009). "Gendered Co-authorship Pair Distribution Patterns", Proceedings of 10th COLLNET Meeting, Dalian, China, September, 2009. Mehmet Gençer, Beyza Oba, Bulent Ozel and V. Sinan Tunalıoğlu, (2006). "Organization of Internet Standards" , in IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Open Source Systems, 2006. Bulent Ozel, (2004). “Open Source Software Movement As a Way to Rhizomatic Organisations: A Deleuzian Approach to Organisational Discourse of Open Source Software Communities” , In Organizational Discourse: Arte-facts, Arche-types and Archi-texts, ISBN: 1-900089-06-8 , p. 204-207. Bulent Ozel and Han Woo Park, (2009). "Online Image Content Analysis of Political Figures: Facial Expressions of National Assembly Members in South Korea", In Proc. ICCC2009 (International Conference on Convergence Content) December, 2009, Hanoi, Vietnam. Harald Schmidbauer, Mehmet Gençer, Bulent Ozel, and V. Sinan Tunalıoğlu, (2007). Public Policies in the Software Market: Regional Issues Concerning Open Source Software. In ECOMOD 2007. International Conference on Policy Modeling, Sao Paolo, July 11-13, 2007. Ecomod Press. Ahmet K. Süerdem, Mehmet Gençer, V. Sinan Tunalıoğlu, and Bulent Ozel, (2007). The Ghost in the Machine: Cognitive Patterns in Open Source Software Communities. In Proc. European Group of Organization Studies Colloquium, Vienna 5-7 July 2007. Mehmet Gençer, Bulent Ozel, V.Sinan Tunalioglu, and Beyza Oba, (2006). "Flexible organizing and identity fragmentation in Free/Open Source Software development”, Proc. of 22nd EGOS Bergen, Norway, 2006, www.egosnet.org (Online Web Area). Bulent Ozel, Julia Velkova, Manon van Leeuwen, (2006). "F/OSS in European National Programmes”, Towards Open Source Software Adoption: Educational, Public, Legal, and Usability Practices. Proc. of OSS 2006 tOSSad Workshop. Bulent Ozel, Kaan Erkan, Gorkem Cetin, (2005). "Towards Open Source Software Adoption and Dissemination. A Collaborative Network of FLOSS Compentency Centers", Encuentro Internacional Sobre Conocimiento Libre (NEXUS), Artes Graficas, Badajoz, 2005. Manon van Leeuwen, Julia Velkova, and Bulent Ozel, (2006). “How to avoid the transformation of barriers to OSS adoption in Public Administration into barriers for regional development”, Proc. eChallenges 2006. Bulent Ozel, Mehmet Gençer, Chris Stephenson, (2006). “An MSc Programme in Open Source Information System”, Proc. of OSS 2006 tOSSad Workshop. Bulent Ozel, Julia Velkova, Brian Restall, Jaka Mocnik, Kaan Erkan, Gorkem Cetin, (2006). “FlossCC: A Collaborative Network of Floss Competency Centers Towards Open Source Software Adoption and Dissemination”, Software Libre II Conferencia Internacional, Malaga, 2006. Mehmet Gençer, Bulent Ozel, Harald Schmidbauer, and V. Sinan Tunalioglu, (2006). “Free & Open Source Software, Human Development and Public Policy Making: International Comparison”, Towards Open Source Software Adoption: Educational, Public, Legal, and Usability Practices. Proc. of OSS 2006 tOSSad Workshop. Bulent Ozel, (2005). “Sensemaking in Complex Organizing Technologies: A structurational Model of Control in ERP Technologies”, Proc. of 21th EGOS Colloquium: Berlin, Germany, 2005, www.egosnet.org (Online Web Area). Bulent Ozel and Arzu Baloğlu, (2005). “A Benchmarking Study on Supply Chain Management Systems at Local Turkish Companies”, In Proc. of SCMIS 2005 (Supply Chain Management Information Systems, Thessaloniki, Greece, July 6-8, 2005. Bulent Ozel, (2005)."An Hypergraph Based Approach for Unlocking Power Relations in Rhizomatic Open Source Software Communities" (CiteSeer or draft) , In Proc. of The First International Conference on Open Source Systems, Genova, Italy, July 1115, 2005. Bulent Ozel and Samil Aydogan (2005). "An Hybrid Web Link Prediction System" in Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Knowledge Systems (IKS2005), 06-08 July 2005. Bulent Ozel, (2004). “Virtually Organic Organisations: A Critique of Computational Organisation Models from a Foucauldian Perspective", In Proc. 20th EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies) 26th Colloquium: Information and Communication Technology in Contemporary Organization, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Jul. 1 - 3, 2004, www.egosnet.org (Online Web Area) Bulent Ozel, (2004). “Efficient Sparse Matrix Vector Multiplication: An Hybrid Method Approach Based on Block Diagonalisation", in Proc. TAiNN (Turkish Artificial intelligence and Neural Networks), Izmir, Turkey. Bulent Ozel, (2004)."Kuresel k-Ortalamali Gruplama Yontemi ile Metinlerin ve Terimlerin Sakli Anlam indekslenmeleri" scanned version or submission version , in ASYU(Akilli Sistemlerde Yenilikler ve Uygulamalari 2004, Istanbul, Turkey.