*FAZLI CAN, Professor

Computer Science and Systems Analysis Department, Miami University, Oxford, OH.

Ph.D.: Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

Office: 230H Kreger Hall (about 100 meters away from 39^o 30' 27" N, 84^o 44' 05" W).
On leave at Bilkent University.

Recent Course Program & Links

Miami University, Oxford, OH, Spring '05

• CSA271 - Object-Oriented Programming (Blackboard Web site, needs password)
• CSA381 - Operating Systems (Blackboard Web site, needs password)

Previous Course Program & Links

Miami University, Oxford, OH

• Fall '04: CSA278/604 - Computer Architecture
• Summer '04: 1st term: CSA626 - Information Retrieval Systems
• Spring '04: CSA271 - Object-Oriented Programming, CSA381 - Operating Systems
• Fall '03: CSA278/604 - Computer Architecture
• Summer '03: 1st term: CSA626 - Information Retrieval Systems
• Spring '03: CSA271 - Object-Oriented Programming
• Fall '02: CSA281 - Operating Systems, CSA625 - Operating Systems

Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

• Spring '02: CS101 - Algorithms and Programming I
• Fall '01: CS351 - Data Organization and Management, CS533 - Information Retrieval Systems

Miami University, Oxford, OH (note that SAN was the department code before August 2001).

• Summer '00, 3rd term: SAN626 - Information Retrieval Systems
• Summer '00, 3rd term: SAN278/604 - Computer Architecture
• Spring '00: SAN278/604 - Computer Architecture
• Fall '99: SAN278/604 - Computer Architecture
• Summer '99, 3rd term: SAN163 - Introduction to Computer Concepts & Programming
• Summer '99, 3rd term: SAN626 - Information Retrieval Systems

• Application of clustering to various information retrieval problems,
• Automatic information retrieval system performance evaluation,
• Search of large lexicons for incompletely specified words,
• Text mining, stylometry,
• Turkish language, 20th century Turkish literature, James Joyce in Turkish.

The recipient of Miami University Researcher of the Year Award, 1998, by Sigma Xi.

• Nuray, R., Can, F. "Automatic ranking of information retrieval systems using data fusion." Information Processing and Management (accepted). pdf.
• Carterette, B., Can, F. "Comparing inverted files and signature files for searching a large lexicon." Information Processing and Management, Vol. 41, No. 3, 2005, pp. 613-633. pdf, code.
• Patton, J. M., Can, F. "A stylometric analysis of Yasar Kemal's Ince Memed tetralogy." Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 38, No. 4, 2004, pp.457-467. pdf, (long TR form).
• Can, F., Altingovde, I. S., Demir, E. "Efficiency and effectiveness of query processing in cluster-based retrieval." Information Systems. Vol. 29, No. 8, 2004, pp. 697-717. pdf.
• Can, F., Nuray, R., Sevdik, A. B. "Automatic performance evaluation of Web search engines." Information Processing and Management. Vol. 40, No. 3, 2004, pp. 495-514. pdf.
• Can, F., Patton, J. M. "Change of writing style with time." Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2004, pp. 61-82. pdf.
• Nuray, R., Can, F. "Automatic ranking of retrieval systems in imperfect environments." (Poster.) In the Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 379-380. Toronto Canada, July 28-August 1, 2003. pdf

For an incomplete list of co-authors please click here, and for an incomplete list of publications see
Bibliography Server on Database Systems & Logic Programming or bibFinder.

I am on the program committee of BILTEK 2005, International Informatics Congress, 10-12 June 2005, Eskisehir, Turkey.

I am on the program committee of ADVIS 2004, Third Biennial International Conference on Advances in Information Systems, 20-22 October 2004, Izmir, Turkey.

In the academic year 2001-2002 I was on sabbatical leave at Bilkent University, Computer Engineering Department.   You may also visit my Bilkent University home page if it is still there. A view of the Bilkent area from my office, EA505, balcony.

Presentations:

"Automatic Performance Evaluation of Web Search Engines." CSA Faculty Colloquium, Miami University, April 7, 2003 (based on the work with R. Nuray and A. B. Sevdik).

"Information Retrieval on the Web" (mostly invited presentations, constantly changing April 11 and later presentations have research component based on the recent work on automatic performance evaluation of search engines):

• Miami University, Oxford, OH, October 25, 2002
• Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey, May 17, 2002
• Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, May 3, 2002
• Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, April 11, 2002
• Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, March 19, April 4
• Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey, Feb. 6, 2002, Akademik Bilisim 2002, (in Turkish: "Ag Uzerinden Bilgi Erisimi.")
  

I was one of the two co-editors of the ACM SIGIR Forum, September 1994 - May 2002.

Tutorials on Information Retrieval (Introduction to Information Retrieval: Concepts, Structures, and Time Perspective, Clustering for Information Retrieval: Techniques, Applications, and Evaluation) at The University of Aizu, 16-27 November, 2000, Fukushima, Japan.

"Do only what only you can do." Edsger W. Dijkstra

Computer Science and Systems Analysis Department
Miami University
Oxford, OH, 45056, USA

Office Telephone: (513) 529-5950

Fax: (513) 529-1524

Dept. Secretary: (513) 529-5928

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* Photograph is by Alper Can, on February 8, 2004. (Useful Links: MU Files, MU Libs, ISI, acmDL, Google)

Date of last update: May 6, 2006.