Papers

• B. Uygar Oztekin and Andy Chiu, Query Smearing: Improving Classification Accuracy and Coverage of Search Results using Logs, In Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Cyprus, Sep. 2009.
• Peter Van Ransbeeck, Mathias Vermeulen, Murat Okcay, and B. Uygar Oztekin, Integration of PIV in Engineering Education, 8th International Symposium on Particle Image Velocimetry, Proceedings, Melbourne Victoria, Australia, Aug. 2009.
• Murat Okcay and B. Uygar Oztekin, Educational Particle Image Velocimetry Interactive Experiment Suites, Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference \& Exposition, Session 3426, June 2008.
• B. Uygar Oztekin and Vipin Kumar, Usage Meets Link Analysis: Towards Improving Site Specific and Intranet Search via Usage Statistics, University of Minnesota Technical Report, May 2004.
• B. Uygar Oztekin, Levent Ertoz, Vipin Kumar, and Jaideep Srivastava, Usage-aware PageRank, In Proceedings of the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference, May 2003, Budapest, Hungary.
• B. Uygar Oztekin, George Karypis, and Vipin Kumar, Average Position of User Clicks as an Automated and Non-intrusive way of Evaluating Ranking Methods, University of Minnesota Technical Report, Feb. 2003.
• B. Uygar Oztekin, George Karypis, and Vipin Kumar, Expert Agreement and Content Based Reranking in a Meta Search Environment Using Mearf, In Proceedings of the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference, May 7--11, 2002, Honolulu, Hawaii, pages 333--344. ACM Press.
• Sachin Kumar, B. Uygar Oztekin, Levent Ertoz, Saurabh Singhal, Eui-Hong Han, and Vipin Kumar, Personalized Profile Based Search Interface with Ranked and Clustered Display, International Conference on Intelligent Agents Web Technologies and Internet Commerce - IAWTIC'2001, Las Vegas.
• Lale Akarun, Nilay Ozdilek, and B. Uygar Oztekin, A Novel Technique for Data Hiding in Color Paletted Images, Proceedings of the 10th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO '00, Finland, 2000.

Patents

• B. Uygar Oztekin, Steven D. Baker, and Bryan C. Horling. System and Method for Directing Questions to Consultants through Profile Matching. Apr. 2009.
• B. Uygar Oztekin and Andy Chiu. System and Method for Classifying Information and Customizing Services Using the Classified Information. Apr. 2009.
• B. Uygar Oztekin and Andy Chiu. System and Method for Ordering Search Results Using Concept-Based Information. Aug. 2008.
• Murat Okcay and B. Uygar Oztekin, Fluid Flow Computation, Visualization, and Analysis. May 2008.
• B. Uygar Oztekin, Daria Antonova, Kedar Dhamdhere, Finnegan Southey, and Zhenyu (Mark) Mao. Reordering Search Query Results in Accordance with Search Context Specific Predicted Performance Functions. Aug. 2007.
• Murat Okcay and B. Uygar Oztekin, Fluid flow visualization and analysis. Oct. 2007.
• B. Uygar Oztekin, Bryan Horling, Daria Antonova, Ye Zhou, and Adam Klein. Group Customized Search. Feb. 2007.
• B. Uygar Oztekin, Adam Klein, Taher Haveliwala, Glen Jeh, and Sepandar Kamvar. Website Flavored Search. Mar. 2006.
• B. Uygar Oztekin, Taher Haveliwala, Glen Jeh, Sepandar Kamvar, and Tessa Macduff. Query Boosting Based on User Preferences. Nov. 2004.
• Tessa Macduff, Sugato Basu, Taher Haveliwala, Glen Jeh, Sepandar Kamvar, B. Uygar Oztekin, and Mehran Sahami. Search boost vector based on co-visitation information. Nov. 2004.