This study aims to analyze the conditions which affect students’ perception on selfdirected abilities and seamless learning using cloud systems and social network applications. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods was used in the study. Forty teacher candidates from the Near East University who took the course “Special Learning Methods” participated in the study. The study was ...

The development and proliferation of mobile social networks have the potential to transform ways that people come together and interact in public space. These services allow new kinds of information to flow into public spaces and, as such, can rearrange social and spatial practices. Dodgeball is used as a case study of mobile social networks. Based on a year-long qualitative field study, this a...

My recent research has focused on stochastic modeling and design of dynamic networks, such as (mobile) sensor networks, mesh networks and mobile multi-hop wireless networks. For example, I studied the problems of event coverage in mobile sensor networks and spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks. I also developed a new information-theoretic approach for characterizing state dynamism and i...

Today, the number of people using social networks is increasing. Meanwhile, the most important effect of these networks is on the quality of family members' relationships because it is considered as a tool that can be very effective on the relationships of family members with each other. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of social networks on family relationship...

The Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) provides wireless and mobile communication between vehicles and infrastructure to improve the safety of transportation and make the journey more enjoyable. This system consists of many fixed and mobile nodes (Vehicles, Trains, Vessels, Air planes), Wireless and Wired Telecommunication Technologies to exchange information between mobile nodes or betwee...

As mobile devices have become more ubiquitous, mobile users increasingly expect to utilize proximity-based connectivity, e.g., Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, to opportunistically share multimedia content based on their personal preferences. Many practical problems on Mobile networks, such as routing strategies in MANETs, sensor reprogramming in WSNs and worm containment in online social networks (OSNs) s...

With the rapid development of mobile devices and wireless technologies, a large number of mobile social network systems have emerged in the last few years. The migration of social networks from web-based applications onto mobile platforms not only increases the connectivity of people, but also promotes the convenience of people’s life. Integrated with location-based information services, mobile...

With the proliferation of the Internet, different online representations of social networks emerged, so-called online social networks (OSN), which allow for reflecting and building durable social networks over large distances. Unlike relationships in the physical world, OSN do not require a user to keep a connection alive by communicating at least sporadically. Instead, they foster the passive ...

Routing in mobile delay-tolerant networks faces new challenges such as mobility and the dynamic nature of the network. Social network information may be useful for routing since mobile nodes in the same social network may be encountered more often and thus be more successful at message-passing. Collecting this social network information, however, can be challenging. We compare a social network ...