Working Papers

Acikalin UU, Caskurlu T, Hoberg G, Phillips GM. “Intellectual Property Protection Lost and Competition: An Examination Using Machine Learning”, (Submitted to The Quarterly Journal of Economics)
Presented by coauthors at: NBER Big Data and High-Performance Computing for Financial Economics, NBER Summer Institute Innovation workshop, EFA 2022, (scheduled) AEA 2022, University of Alberta, University of Amsterdam, Columbia University, Harvard Business School, John Hopkins University, University of Minnesota, University of Maryland, and University of Notre Dame, Peking University, UCLA, Yeshiva University +

Acikalin UU, Caskurlu B, Subramani K. “Security-Aware Database Migration Planning” (R&R Constraints) +

Caskurlu B, Subramani K, Acikalin UU, Velasquez A, Wojciechowski P. “Models for test cost minimization in database migration" (Submitted to ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)) +

Acikalin UU, Gorgun MK, Kutlu M, Tas BKO. “How You Describe Procurement Calls Matters: Predicting Competition and Cost-Effectiveness of European Union Public Procurement Calls Using Their Description” (Submitted to Natural Language Engineering) +

Acikalin UU, Caskurlu B. “Ant-colony based coarsening scheme for Multilevel Hypergraph Partitioning”.

Acikalin UU, Kutlu M, Tas BKO, “Key Features of Public Procurement of Innovation: Evidence from the US Public Procurement Market”.

Algorithms and Optimization

Acikalin UU and Caskurlu B. 2022. Multilevel Memetic Hypergraph Partitioning with Greedy Recombination. In Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (GECCO '22 Companion), July 9-13, 2022, Boston, MA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3520304.3529050 +

ÇAŞKURLU, BUĞRA; AÇIKALIN, UTKU UMUR; KIZILKAYA, FATİH ERDEM; and EKİCİ, ÖZGÜN (2022) "On approximate Nash equilibria of the two-source connection game," Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences: Vol. 30: No. 6, Article 14. https://doi.org/10.55730/1300-0632.3934 +

Acikalin, UU., Caskurlu, B., Wojciechowski, P., Subramani, K. (2021). New Results on Test-Cost Minimization in Database Migration. In: D'Angelo, G., Michail, O. (eds) Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing. ALGOCLOUD 2021. +

Subramani, K., Caskurlu, B., Acikalin, U.U. (2020). Security-Aware Database Migration Planning. In: Brandic, I., Genez, T., Pietri, I., Sakellariou, R. (eds) Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing. ALGOCLOUD 2019. +

NLP and Economic Research

Acikalin, UU, and Kutlu M. "Patent Search Using Triplet Networks Based Fine-Tuned SciBERT." arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.11497 (2022). +

Acikalin, U. U., Bardak, B., & Kutlu, M. (2020, October). Turkish sentiment analysis using bert. In 2020 28th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) (pp. 1-4). IEEE. +