Session A1 Competitive Markets and Energy Management Systems Thursday, 6 December 2007 14:00-15:40 Ali Abur, Professor and Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Northeastern University, USA 241 MODELING THE STRATEGIC BIDDING IN COMPETITIVE ELECTRICITY MARKETS BASED ON FUZZY-LOGIC Mohammad Mohammadi Iran 167 PROVIDING LOCATIONAL MARKET SIGNALS IN THE CONTEXT OF COORDINATED MULTI-YEAR TRANSMISSION EXPANSION PLANNING Osman Bulent Tor, Nezih Guven Turkey 58 NETWORK LOSS INCORPORATED LOCATIONAL MARGINAL PRICE BY USING DC-OPF Seon Gu Kim South Korea 134 COMPETITIVE TRANSMISSION PATH ASSESSMENT FOR LOCAL MARKET POWER MITIGATION Farrokh (Abdolhossein) Rahimi, Mingxia Zhang, Benjamin Hobbs USA 83 TRANSMISSION USAGE ALLOCATION IN BILATERAL ENERGY TRANSACTION USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK Mohd. Wazir Mustafa, S.N.Khalid H.Shareef A.Khairuddin Malaysia 81 A STUDY OF EXTENDED AND INTEGRATED DATABASE IMPLEMENTATION IN KOREAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Hyo Sang Lee, Wan Hong Kim, Yeo Jun Yoon South Korea Session A2 Privatization and Power System Reliability Thursday, 6 December 2007 16:00-17:40 Jin O Kim, Professor, Hanyang University, Korea 294 Invited Paper ROLE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLINGENCE IN THE RELIABILITY EVALUATION OF ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS Chanan Singh, Lingfeng Wang USA 86 EVALUATION OF REDUNDUNCY AND EFFECT OF PROTECTIVE COMPONENTS ON PROTECTION SYSTEM RELIABILITY Amir Abbarin, Mahmud Fotuhi-Firuzabad Iran 243 TRANSMISSION NETWORK ADEQUACY OPTIMIZATION USING GENETIC ALGORITHM Aahad Kazemi, Hosein Haddadian, Meisam Mahdavi Iran 85 DETERMINATION OF SPINNING RESERVE IN RESTRUCTURED POWER SYSTEMS USING A HYBRID DETERMINISTIC/PROBABILISTIC APPROACH Amir Motamedi, Mahmud Fotuhi-Firuzabad Iran 139 GENERATION RELIABILITY AND MARKET PRICE EVALUATION IN POWER POOL MARKET USING MONTE CARLO SIMULATION AND NEURAL NETWORKS Hosein Haroonabadi, Mahmood-Reza Haghifam Iran 109 PRIVATIZATION AND DEREGULATION OF THE ELECTRIC POWER SECTOR - FUNDAMENTALS Cigdem Celik Turkey Session A3 Distribution Systems and Power System Protection Friday, 7 December 2007 09:00-10:40 Mohd.Wazir Mustafa , Assoc.Professor, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,Malaysia 90 DISTANCE PROTECTION OF DOUBLE-CIRCUIT TRANSMISSION LINES WITH COMPENSATION FOR THE REACTANCE EFFECTUNDER STANDARD AVAILABILITY OF MEASUREMENTS Jan Izykowski, Marcin Bozek Poland 97 TRANSFORMER DIFFERENTIAL PROTECTION SCHEME WITH INTERNAL FAULTS DETECTION ALGORITHM USING SECOND HARMONICS RESTRAIN AND FIFTH HARMONICS BLOCKING LOGIC Dris Ouahdi, F.Messaoud Elmareimi, Fouad Rekina Algeria 59 VOLTAGE INVERSION DUE TO TCSC PRESENCE ON SECOND CIRCUIT OF DOUBLE CIRCUIT LINE AND DISTANCE RELAY MAL-OPERATION Sadegh Jamali, Ahad Kazemi, Hossein Shateri Iran 117 A NEW METHOD FOR ISLANDING DETECTION IN DISTRIBUTED GENERATION Eugeniusz Rosolowski, Arkadiusz Burek, Leszek Jedut Poland 171 AN EFFICIENT ALGORITHM FOR LOSSES REDUCTION OF RADIAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM Jaswanti Dhiman, Tilak Thakur India Session A4 Power System Optimization-I Friday, 7 December 2007 11:00-12:40 Jan Izyovski , Professor, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland 111 A FUZZY-GENETIC ALGORITHM BASED METHOD FOR SHORT-TERM MULTI- OBJECTIVE UNIT COMMITMENT IN LARGE-SCALE POWER SYSTEMS A Ebrahimi, R Yarmohammadi, S Rahimzadeh Iran 220 A DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION APPROACH FOR THE UNIT COMMITMENT PROBLEM Ali Keles, A. Sima Etaner-Uyar, Belgin Turkay Turkey 174 POWER GRID RESTORATION OPTIMIZATION CONSIDERING GENERATING PLANT ISLANDING SCHEME Jayesh Joglekar India 237 OPTIMIZED CLUSTERING OF VPP USING PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION Sung Yul Kim, Dong Jin Kim, In Su Bae, Jin O Kim Korea 87 POWER SYSTEM CONGESTION MANAGEMENT USING HYBRID CONTROL OF PST AND REAL POWER GENERATIONS Kyu-Ho Kim, Kyung-Bin Song, Jae-Chul Kim Korea 209 OPTIMAL PLACEMENT AND SIZING OF DISTRIBUTED GENERATORS IN RADIAL SYSTEM Tuba Gozel, M. Hakan Hocaoglu Turkey Session A5 Power System Optimization-II Saturday, 8 December 2007 09:00-10:40 Vladimiro Miranda , Professor, Institute of Engineering in Systems and Computers of Porto and University of Porto, Portugal 138 TRANSMISSION EXPANSION PLANNING CONSIDERING VOLTAGE LEVEL AND NETWORK LOSS USING GENETIC ALGORITHM Saeed Jalilzadeh, Ahad Kazemi, Meisam Mahdavi, Hosein Haddadian Iran 70 SOLUTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL/ECONOMIC DISPATCH PROBLEM BY USING FIRST ORDER GRADIENT METHOD Celal Yasar, Salih Fadil Turkey 55 A COMPREHENSIVE LOAD FLOW MODEL FOR UPFC AND ITS COMBINATION WITH ESS Ahad Kazemi, Ahmad Esmailie, Mohammad Hassanzadeh Iran 94 MONITORING OF POWER SYSTEM CONTROL FUNCTIONS A DATABASE APPROACH Dlawer Maroof Iraq 154 ENERGY WISE DRIVING OF A MASS TRANSIT TRAIN Suleyman Acikbas, Mehmet Turan Soylemez Turkey 239 EFFECTS OF CORONA RING DESIGN ON ELECTRIC FIELD INTENSITY AND POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTION ALONG AN INSULATOR STRING Suat Ilhan, Aydogan Ozdemir Turkey Session A6 High Voltage Engineering Saturday, 8 December 2007 11:00-12:40 Petre Tusaliu , Professor, University of Craiova, Romania 101 A STUDY ON NUMERICAL COMPUTATION OF POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTION AROUND A GROUNDING ROD DRIVEN IN SOIL Ersan Senturk, Nurettin Umurkan, Ozcan Kalenderli Turkey 129 FLASHOVER VOLTAGE ESTIMATION BY ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK OF POLLUTED POST INSULATORS TRANSMISSION LINES AT HIGH ALTITUDE AREA Boubakeur Zegnını, Djillali Mahı, Abdelkader Chaker Algeria 265 A NOVEL PARTIAL DISCHARGE CALIBRATOR DESIGN VIA DUAL MICROCONROLLER AND HIGH SPEED DAC Murat Fidan, Hasbi Ismailoglu Turkey 246 A NEW APPROACH TO WINDING DISPLACEMENT DETECTION OF POWER TRANSFORMER USING FRA METHOD AND ELECTRICAL FORCES DISTRIBUTION Ali Shirvani Boroujeni, Mohammad Nazari Iran 252 A STUDY ON THE RELIABILITY OF POLYESTER INSULATORS BLENDED WITH BORAX Aysel Ersoy, Yasin Ozcelep, Ayten Kuntman Turkey 12 SOME RESULTS OF UNLOADED LINE SWITCHING-OFFS' COMPUTER SIMULATION Tahir Mithatoglu Lazimov, Samir Vidadioglu Imanov Azerbaijan Session A7 Power System Transients and Stability - I Saturday, 8 December 2007 14:00-15:40 Muhammad Firuzabad , Professor, Sharif University of Technology, Iran 120 INVESTIGATION OF VOLTAGE STABILITY LIMIT VALUES IN ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEMS USING GENETIC ALGORITHM Ali Ozturk, Pakize Erdogmus, M. Ali Yalcin Turkey 13 SWITCHING TRANSIENT PHENOMENA AT THE 380 kV UNLOADED LINE SWITCHING Petre Tusaliu, D.C. Tusaliu, Aydogan Ozdemir, V. Tusaliu Romania, Turkey 72 THE OBSERVATION OF CHAOTIC OSCILLATIONS IN POWER SYSTEMS WITH STATIC VAR COMPENSATOR Kadir Abaci, M. Ali Yalcin, Yilmaz Uyaroglu, Murat Yildiz Turkey 50 THE EFFECTS OF HYDRO POWER PLANTS' GOVERNOR SETTINGS ON THE STABILITY OF TURKISH POWER SYSTEM FREQUENCY Mahmut Erkut Cebeci, Ulas Karaagac, Osman Bulent Tor, Arif Ertas Turkey 176 ANALYSIS OF DAMPER PARAMETERS EFFECT ON SUB SYNCHRONOUS RESONANCE STABILITY Mohammad Reza Feyzi, Mohammad Bagher Bana Sharifian, Majid Valizadeh Iran 105 ANALITICAL ANALYSIS OF TRANSFORMER INRUSH CURRENT AND.SOME NEW TECHNIQUES FOR ITS REDDUCTION M.B. B.Sharifian, M. Valizadeh, A.A. B.Sharifian, R. Rahnavard Iran Session A8 Power System Transients and Stability -II Saturday, 8 December 2007 16:00-17:40 Ahad Kazemi , Assist.Professor, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran 112 APPLICATION OF GENETIC ALGORITHM TO DESIGN PID CONTROLLER FOR POWER SYSTEM STABILIZATION Seyyed Hossein Hosseini, Reza Rahnavard, Hamed Kharrati Iran 144 MODELING OF POWER SYSTEM ELEMENTS BY WAVELETS AND TLM A CASE STUDY-TRANSFORMER INTERNAL FAULT STUDY Okan Ozgonenel, Veli Turkmenoglu Turkey 247 A NEURAL NETWORK BASED APPROACH FOR TRANSMISSION LINE FAULTS Sami Ekici, Selcuk Yildirim, Mustafa Poyraz Turkey 206 IMPLIMANTATION METHODS TO ELIMINATE OVERLOAD POWER SYSTEM PROBLEM Daoud AL- Hamad, Kadri Buruncuk Turkish Republic Northern Cyprus 179 CALCULATION OF THE FERRORESONANCE OVERVOLTAGES AT OPEN-PHASE OPERATING CONDITIONS WITH AND WITHOUT OVERVOLTAGE LIMITERS Arif Gashimov, Aytek Babayeva, Ahmet Nayir, Jan Izykowski Azerbaijan, Turkey, Poland 214 THREE-PHASE VOLTAGE REGULATOR MODELING FOR FORWARD/ BACKWARD SWEEP- BASED DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS POWER FLOW ALGORITHMS Ulas Eminoglu, Hakan Hocaoglu Turkey Session B1 Robotics and Intelligent Systems Thursday, 6 December 2007 14:00-15:40 Galip Cansever , Professor and Dean, Yıldız University, Turkey 132 FAULT DETECTION AND ISOLATION FOR ROBOT MANIPULATORS USING ANFIS AND WAVELET Tolga Yuksel, Abdulllah Sezgin Turkey 187 AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO SOLVING THE REAL-WORLD MULTIPLE TRAVELING ROBOT PROBLEM Sanem Sariel, Nadia Erdogan, Tucker Balch Turkey, USA 226 MASS ACTION BASED DATA CLUSTERING METHOD AND ITS WEIGHTED FUZZIFICATION Umut Orhan, Mahmut Hekim Turkey 227 AN ADAPTIVE NEURO-FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEM FOR CALCULATION RESONANT FREQUENCY OF MICROSTRIP DIPOLE ANTENNA S. Cumhur Basaran, I. Burcu Toprak, Ahmet Yardimci Turkey 118 CHANNEL ESTİMATION BY COSIMULATION OF RF AND DIGITAL SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT FOR OFDM SYSTEMS Cebrail Ciftlikli, A. Tuncay Ozsahin, A. Cagri Yapici Turkey Session B2 Electrical Machines-I Friday, 7 December 2007 09:00-10:40 Cengiz Taplamacıoğlu , Professor and Head, Gazi University, Turkey 76 THREE PHASE INDUCTION MOTOR INCIPIENT ROTOR'S FAULTS DETECTION BASED ON IMPROVED ROOT-MUSIC APPROACH Ahmed Hamida Boudinar, Azeddine Bendiabdallah, Noureddine Benouzza, Nabil Boughanmi Algeria 131 COMPARISONS OF THE CONTINUOUS AND DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS FOR POTENTIAL FAILURE DETECTION IN ELECTRIC MOTORS Erinc Karatoprak, Tayfun Senguler, Emine Ayaz, Serhat Seker Turkey 124 A NOVEL DYNAMIC ERROR DRIVEN TRACKING CONTRLLER FOR PV POWERED PMDC MOTOR DRIVES Adel M. Sharaf, Emhemed Elbakush, Ismail H. Atlas Canada, Turkey 190 SIMULATION OF DIRECT TORQUE CONTROLLED PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR DRIVE Selin Ozcira, Nur Bekiroglu, Engin Aycicek Turkey 195 SIMULATION OF THREE PHASE THREE LEG TRANSFORMER BEHAVIOR UNDER DIFFERENT VOLTAGE SAG TYPES Mohammadreza Dolatian, Alireza Jalilian Iran Session B3 Electrical Machines-II Friday, 7 December 2007 11:00-12:40 Ismail H. Altas , Professor, Karadeniz University, Turkey 142 TRANSIENT STABILITY OF SYNCHRONOUS GENERATOR IN OUT OF PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION Amir Hossein Ranjbar, Gevorg Gharehpetian Iran 11 EXPREINCE WITH APPLICATION OF STANSSTILL FREQUENCY RESPONSE TEST FOR SYNCHRONOUS GENERATOR'S PARAMETERS IDENTIFICATION Mahdi Pourgholi, M.R. Aghamohammadi Iran 99 FUZZY LOGIC CONTROL OF LINEAR INDUCTION MOTOR Emre Ozkop, Adem Sefa Akpinar Turkey 222 USING MATHEMATICA AS A TOOL FOR TEACHING ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICE DYNAMICS Osman Kubilay Ekekon, Emre Apaydin, Canbolat Ucak Turkey 130 TORQUE RIPPLE MİNIMIZATION OF SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR SRMDS 6/4 Rachid Mohamed Benhadria, Khadidja Kendouci, Benyounes Mazari Algeria Session B4 Power Elecetronics Applications Session Dedicated to Professor Tamer KUTMAN Saturday, Saturday, 8 December 2007 09:00-10:40 Muhammed H. Rashid , Professor, Fellow IEEE, University of West Florida, USA 65 IGBT BASED INVERTER WITH SOFT SWITCHING AUXILIARY CIRCUIT FOR INDUCTION-COOKING APPLICATIONS Seyed Hossein Hosseini, Ali Yazdanpanah Goharrizi Iran 141 HIGH-VOLTAGE SWITCH REALIZATION POSSIBILITIES FOR THE 3.0 kV DC FED VOLTAGE CONVERTERS Dmitri Vinnikov Estonia 257 BALANCED AND UNBALANCED VOLTAGE SAG MITIGATION USING DSTATCOM H. Nasiraghdam, A. Jalilian Iran 282 ANALYSIS, DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF A FLOATING CAPACITOR SOFT SWITCHING HIGH POWER SINGLE PHASE BOOST RECTIFIER Ned Lebens Giri Venkataramanan M. Timur Aydemir USA, Turkey 53 HARMONIC EXTRACTION USING NEURAL NETWORK IN DYNAMIC VOLTAGE RESTORER Mehmet Tümay, M. Emin Meral K. Çağatay Bayındır Turkey 119 A PHOTOVOLTAIC POWERED TRACKING SYSTEM FOR MOVING OBJECTS İsmail H. Altaş, Adel M Sharaf Turkey, Canada Session B5 Control Theory and Applications Saturday, 8 December 2007 11:00-12:40 Alaeddin Malek , Professor and Head of Applied Mathematics Department, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran 96 USING GENETIC ALGORITHM TO IMPROVE THE ROBUST PERFORMANCE OF A FLEXIBLE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM Peyman Kohan Sedgh, Ramin Amirifar Iran 219 MOESP ALGORITHM FOR MODELLING THE ELONGATION CONTROL PART OF A SKIN PASS MILL E. Fatih Yetkin, Saygin Kacar, Hasan Dag Turkey 234 OVERSHOOT FREE PI CONTROLLER TUNING BASED ON POLE ASSIGNMENT Nevra Bayhan, Mehmet Turan Soylemez, Tugba Bostan Turkey 185 FUZZY CONTROLLER FOR INDOOR LIGHTING SYSTEM WITH DAYLIGHTING CONTRIBUTION Andrei Cziker, Mircea Chindris, Anca Miron Romania 201 AN ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION METHOD WITH LOCAL SEARCH FOR STABILITY ANALYSIS OF LINEAR TIME-INVARIANT TIMEDELAY SYSTEMS Mohammad-Taghi Vakil-Baghmisheh, Modjtaba Khalidji Iran 150 DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF GENETIC ALGORITHMS USING FPGA Javad Frounchi, Mohammad Hossein Zarifi, Sanaz Asgari Far, Hamed Taghipour Iran Session B6 Power Electronics Applications -II Saturday, 8 December 2007 14:00-15:40 Seyyed Hossein Hosseini , Professor, University of Tabriz, Iran 189 A CASE STUDY OF HVDC SUBMARINE INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN TURKEY AND TRNC Ozgur Cemal Ozerdem, Osama Haboob Turkish Republic Northern Cyprus, Palestine 210 SIMULATION OF SIX-LEVEL DIODE-CLAMPED MULTILEVEL INVERTER USING PWM MODULATION IN MATLAB AND PSIM Sule Ozdemir, Engin Ozdemir, Leon Tolbert Turkey 212 A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SAPF WITH TWO DIFFERENT CURRENT CONTROL STRATEGIES Berrin Susluoglu, Vedat M. Karsli Turkey 249 DESIGN and IMPLEMENTATION of a SHUNT ACTIVE POWER FILTER with REDUCED DC LINK VOLTAGE Onur Ucak, Ilker Kocabas, Alper Terciyanli Turkey 158 CURRENT HARMONICS COMPANZATION USING A FUZZY-PI CONTROLLED ACTIVE POWER FILTER WITH FUNCTION OF UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SUPPLY Ismail Atacak, Omer Faruk Bay Turkey 71 EXPERIMENTAL SETUP FOR A DSP BASED SINGLE-PHASE PWM INVERTER Mehmet Tumay, K. Cagatay Bayındır, Mehmet Ugras Cuma, Ahmet Teke Turkey Session B7 Intelligent Systems Saturday, 8 December 2007 16:00-17:40 Serge Lefeuvre , Professor, School of Engineers, France 108 VOICE INTEGRATED HOME AUTOMATION AND SECURITY SYSTEM THROUGH TELEPHONE LINE Kamil Cetin, Ozge Sahin Turkey 24 ADAPTIVE NEURO-FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEM FOR TWO OUTPUTS Tarek Benmiloud, Abdelhafid Omari Algeria 133 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A LABVIEW BASED TEMPERATURE CONTROLLER WITH USING FUZZY LOGIC Ahmet Sertac Sunay, Onur Kocak, Ersin Kamberli, Cengiz Kocum Turkey 31 SIMULATION OF SELF-TUNING PID-TYPE FUZZY ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF A HVAC SYSTEM Servet Soyguder, Mehmet Karakose, Hasan Alli Turkey 51 A NEURAL NETWORK FOR NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION WITH GENERAL LINEAR CONSTRAINTS Maryam Yashtini, Alaeddin Malek Iran Special Session C1 Signal Processing for Communucations Thursday, 6 December 2007 14:00-15:40 Aydın Akan , Professor, Istanbul Univesity, Turkey 272 PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF AN STFT-BASED BROADBAND INTERFERENCE EXCISION ALGORITHM IN DS-SS SYSTEMS Sultan Aldirmaz, Lutfiye Durak Turkey 194 SLEPIAN BASES AND CHIRP-BASED CHANNEL ESTIMATION FOR ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OFDM) SYSTEMS Seda Senay, Luis F. Chaparro, Aydin Akan Turkey, USA 256 CLUSTER MANAGEMENT IN BEARING-ONLY TRACKING Ozgur Ozfidan, Hakan Ali Cirpan, Ulug Bayazit, Azime Can Turkey 264 TIME-FREQUENCY CHANNEL EQUALIZATION FOR WIRELESS OFDM SYSTEMS Erol Onen, Aydin Akan, Luis F. Chapparro Turkey, USA 269 EFFECTS OF DATA REDUCTION METHODS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF STATISTICAL NEURAL NETWORKS IN MEDICAL APPLICATIONS Gokhan Bilgin, Bulent Bolat, Tulay Yildirim Turkey 153 A BLIND TIMING ACQUISITION ALGORITHM FOR DS-UWB SYSTEMS Zhila Amini Sheshdeh, Abdolreza Nabavi Iran Session C2 Electronics Session Dedicated to Prof.Sait TÜRKÖZ Thursday, 6 December 2007 16:00-17:40 Alain Fabre , Professor, Laboratoire IMS, Université Bordeaux, France 204 A NEW 5TH-ORDER DIFFERENTIAL TYPE CLASS-AB LOG-DOMAIN ELLIPTIC LOWPASS FILTER FOR VIDEO FREQUENCY APPLICATIONS Ali Kircay, Ugur Cam Turkey 277 VLSI IMPLEMENTATION OF GENERAL PURPOSED CONIC SECTION FUNCTION NEURAL NETWORK Burcu Erkmen, Tulay Yildirim Turkey 107 DESİGN OF A 5.8 GHz, 0. 4 W CLASS E POWER AMPLIFIER FOR WIRELESS APPLICATIONS F. Figen Gurcan, Osman Palamutcuogullari Turkey 278 TRADE-OFFS IN THE ANALOG FILTER DESIGN WITH AN OTA-C ALL-PASS FILTER EXAMPLE Bilgin Metin, Kirat Pal, Oguzhan Cicekoglu Turkey, Indıa 52 A FULLY INTEGRATED RANGE-FINDER BASED ON THE LINE-STRIPE METHOD Alireza Saberkari, Shahriar Baradaran Shokouhi Iran 267 EXTRACTION OF MOSFET BSIM3V3 THRESHOLD VOLTAGE AND MOBILITY EFFECT PARAMETERS WITH GENETIC ALGORITHM M. Emin Basak, Ayten Kuntman, Hakan Kuntman Turkey Session C3 Electronics -I Friday, 7 December 2007 09:00-10:40 Osman Palamutçuoğlu , Professor, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey 293 Invited Paper STATE OF THE ART FOR LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIERS IN WIRELESS TRANSCEIVERS; TWO NEW WIDEBAND ALL-ACTIVE LNAS IN SiGe- BiCMOS TECHNOLOGY Alain Fabre, Balwant Godora France 280 A NEW NEGATIVE RESISTANCE CIRCUIT AND AN APPLICATION FOR LOSS COMPENSATION IN A DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIER Metin Yazgi, Ali Toker, Bal S. Virde Turkey, UK 149 A 12 bit, 80 Msamples/s, PIPELINE ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTER Mohammad Hossein Zarifi, Ali Rostami, Ziaaddin Daie KuzeKanani, Jafar Sobhi Iran 245 AN OPERATIONAL TRANSCONDUCTANCE AMPLIFIER WITH 45nm FINFET TECHNOLOGY Zehan Kesilmis, Mutlu Avci, Murat Aksoy Turkey 205 A NEW DIFFERENTIAL DIFFERENCE CURRENT CONVEYOR BASED VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATOR ADJUSTABLE WITH A GROUNDED RESISTOR Selcuk Kilinc, Varun Aggarwal, Ugur Cam Turkey, USA 199 A HIGH-DRIVE FULLY DIFFERENTIAL CURRENT MODE OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER PROVIDING HIGH OUTPUT IMPEDANCE AND FILTER APPLICATION Mustafa Altun, Hakan Kuntman Turkey Session C4 Electronics-II Friday, 7 December 2007 11:00-12:40 Balwant Godara , Assistant Professor, Insitut Superieur d'Electronique de Paris, France 230 WIDEBAND CURRENT CONVEYOR WITH RAIL TO RAIL INPUT STAGE Emre Arslan, Avni Morgul Turkey 37 NOVEL HIGH-PRECISION CURRENT-MODE MULTIPLIER/DIVIDER Serdar Menekay, Rıza Can Tarcan, Hakan Kuntman Turkey 89 SRT FAST DIVISION ALGORITHMS: SIMULATION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION Selvihan Nazli Yavuzer, Ahmet Sertbas Turkey 123 A NOVEL CMOS 1-BIT FULL ADDER CELL WITH THE GDI TECHNIQUE Alireza Saberkari, Shahriar Baradaran Shokouhi Iran 182 DESIGN OF DIFFERENTIAL TYPE CLASS-AB GENERAL NOTCH FILTER IN THE LOG DOMAIN Abdullah T. Tola, Saziye Surav Yilmaz, Remzi Arslanalp Turkey Session C5 Circuits and Systems Saturday, 8 December 2007 09:00-10:40 Acar Savacı , Professor, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey 19 A FAST AND EFFICIENT HARDWARE TECHNIQUE FOR MEMORY ALLOCATION Fethullah Karabiber, Ahmet Sertbas, Hasan Cam Turkey, USA 114 FPGA IMPLEMENTATION OF FFT ALGORITHMS USING FLOATING POINT NUMBERS Hilal Kaptan, Ali Tangel, Suhap Sahin Turkey 17 SYSTEMATIC IMPLEMENTATION METHOD OF LC-LADDER FILTERS BY MO-CCCII CIRCUITS Andrei Campeanu, Janos Gal Romania 9 SYNTHESIS OF MIXED LUMPED AND DISTRIBUTED ELEMENT NETWORKS Metin Sengul Turkey 80 A NOVEL CURRENT MODE UNIVERSAL ACTIVE-RC FILTER USING FDCCIIS Fethi Gur, Fuat Anday Turkey Session C6 Electronics -III Saturday, 8 December 2007 11:00-12:40 Ion Tutanescu , University of Pitesti, Romania 217 A 10-BIT 1.2-GS/s NYQUIST CURRENT-STEERING CMOS D/A CONVERTER USING A NOVEL 3-D DECODER Paymun Aliparast, Nasser Nasirzadeh Iran 211 CURRENT MODE MULTIPLE-VALUED ADDER TREE DESİGN FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE ARITHMETIC APPLICATIONS Ugur Cini, Avni Morgul, Mustafa Aktan Turkey 35 A TRANSIMPEDANCE TYPE MULTIFUNCTION FILTER SUITABLE FOR MOSFET-C TECHNOLOGY Muhammed A. Ibrahim Iraq 60 DEVELOPMENT OF BIOLOGICAL VOXEL-BASED COMPUTATIONAL MODELS FROM DICOM FILES FOR 3-D ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS Mustafa Deha Turan, Selcuk Çomlekci Turkey 61 GAIN AND NOISE ANALYS_S OF ZERO IF SECOND HARMONIC MIXER Osman Palamutcuogullari, Mehmet Kayhan Turkey Session C7 Signal Processing -I Saturday, 8 December 2007 14:00-15:40 Mohammed Ismail , Professor, Analog VLSI Lab, Ohio State Univ, USA 178 DIGITAL IMAGE WATERMARKING BASED ON A RELATION BETWEEN SPATIAL AND FREQUENCY DOMAINS Murat Furat, Mustafa Oral Turkey 45 DETECTION OF VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS USING LEARNING VECTOR QUANTIZATION Rahele Kafieh, Rassoul Amir Fattahi, Alireza Mehri Iran 228 BREAST TUMOR DETECTION USING LIFTING SCHEME WAVELET TRANSFORM AND MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY Burak Tuysuz, Gulay Tohumoglu Turkey 193 DISTORTION EFFECTS OF SPEECH CODERS ON DTMF SIGNALS Ismail Uzun, Rifat Edizkan Turkey 106 A METHOD TO DETERMINE THE COEFFICIENTS IN B-SPLINE INTERPOLATION Liliana Matiu-Iovan, Flaviu Mihai Frigura-Iliasa, Doru Vatau Romania 102 POST BEAMFORMING ADAPTIVE SECOND ORDER VOLTERRA FILTER (ASOVF) FOR PULSE-ECHO ULTRASONIC IMAGING Mamoun Al-Mistarihi Jordan Session C8 Signal Processing -II Saturday, 8 December 2007 16:00-17:40 Tülay Yıldırım , Professor,Yıldız University, Turkey 263 A STUDY ON THE STATE ESTIMATION OF NONLINEAR ELECTRIC CIRCUITS BY UNSCENTED KALMAN FILTER Esra Saatci, Aydin Akan Turkey 268 A PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS FOR DMUSIC Ersen Yilmaz, Erdogan Dilaveroglu Turkey 188 IMAGE WATERMARKING IN THE JOINT SPATIO-FREQUENCY DOMAIN USING DISCRETE EVOLUTIONARY TRANSFORM Mahmut Ozturk, Aydin Akan, Yalcin Cekic Turkey 229 WIDEBAND SOURCES LOCALIZATION WITH EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHM Serap Cekli, Hakan Ali Cirpan Turkey 63 AN EFFECTIVE SIMULATOR FOR THE ROSETTE SCANNİNG INFRARED SEEKER Hadi Soltanizadeh, Shahriar Baradaran Shokouhi Iran 255 A NOVEL GRAIN LEVEL MEASUREMENT METHOD FOR SILOS Hakan Isisker, Huseyin Canbolat Turkey Special Session D1 From Engineering Electromagnetics Towards Electromagnetic Engineering Thursday, 6 December 2007 16:00-17:40 Levent Sevgi , Professor, Dogus University, Turkey 285 DUAL-BAND SPLIT-RING ANTENNA DESIGN FOR WLAN APPLICATIONS S. Cumhur Başaran, Yunus E. Erdemli Turkey 286 RECONFIGURABLE RF MEMS DEVICES AND ANTENNAS Kagan Topallı, Mehmet Ünlü, İpek İstanbulluoglu, Halil İbrahim Atasoy,Ömer Bayraktar, Özlem Aydın Çivi, Simsek Demir, Sencer Koç, Tayfun Akın Turkey 288 ON THE USE OF SPLIT-RING RESONATORS AND COMPLEMENTARY SPLIT-RING RESONATORS FOR NOVEL PRINTED MICROWAVE ELEMENTS: SIMULATIONS, EXPERIMENTS AND DISCUSSIONS Volkan Öznazlı, Vakur B. Ertürk Turkey 290 METAMATERIALS AND FDTD BASED NUMERICAL MODELING STUDIES Sibel Gündüz, Mustafa Çakır, Gonca Çakır, Levent Sevgi Turkey 291 TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION OF METAMATERIAL-BASED ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNAS Aycan Erentok, Ole Sigmund Denmark 292 ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION OF MOBILE PHONE ANTENNA RADIATION PERFORMANCE IN THE PRESENCE OF HEAD AND HAND PHANTOMS Erdem Ofli, Chung-Huan Li, Nicolas Chavannes, Niels Kuster Switzerland Session D2 Electromagnetics, Microwave, Antennas and Propagation -I Friday, 7 December 2007 09:00-10:40 Karim Kabalan , Professor, American University of Beirut, Lebanon 42 CALCULATION OF METALLIC CONDUCTOR VOLTAGE DUE TO ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLING USING NEURAL FUZZY MODELING Abdullah H. Al-Badi, Samy M. Ghania, Ali H. Kasem, Ehab F. EL-Saadany Oman, Egypt, Canada 47 PATTERN SYNTHESIS WITH UNIFORM CIRCULAR ARRAYS FOR INTERCELL INTERFERENCE REDUCTION Ali El Hajj, Karim Kabalan, Elias Yaacoub, Mohammed Al-Husseini Lebanon 146 PATTERN NULLING IN LINEAR ARRAYS WITH FEWER ELEMENTS BY USING DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION ALGORITHM Ertugrul Aksoy, Erkan Afacan Turkey 116 INVESTIGATION OF EFFECTIVE PERMITTIVITY AND PERMEABILITY FOR A NOVEL V-SHAPED METAMATERIAL USING SIMULATED S-PARAMETERS Evren Ekmekci, Gonul Turhan Sayan Turkey 192 A METHOD TO DETERMINE THE DIELECTRIC CONSTANT VALUE OF MICROWAVE PCB SUBSTRATES Serhan Yamacli, Ali Akdagli, Caner Ozdemir Turkey Session D3 Electromagnetics, Microwave, Antennas and Propagation -II Friday, 7 December 2007 11:00-12:40 Abdullah Al-Badi , Assist.Professor, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman 22 COMPARISON OF THE PERFORMANCES OF ADI-FDTD AND EXPONENTIAL COEFFICIENT OPTIMIZED SYMPLECTIC FDTD METHODS Mehmet Kusaf, Abdullah Y. Oztoprak Turkish Republic Northern Cyprus 74 AN ELECTRICAL BEAM TILT ARRAY ANTENNA FOR MOBILE BASE STATIONS Abolfazl Falahati, Hamid Khodabakhshi Iran 287 FREQUENCY-DOMAIN INVESTIGATIONS OF PERIODIC DIPOLE ARRAYS Çağatay Uluışık, Ercan Topuz, Levent Sevgi Turkey 289 PARALLEL FDTD-BASED RADAR CROSS SECTION SIMULATIONS Mustafa Çakır, Gonca Çakır, Levent Sevgi Turkey 128 EXTERNAL EM FIELD COUPLING TO COPLANAR MICROSTRIP LINES Hamid Khodabakhshi, Ahmad Cheldavi Iran 27 A PATTERN SYNTHESIS METHOD FOR PLANAR ARRAYS WITH INDEPENDENT CONTROL OF SIDELOBE LEVEL AND BEAMWIDTH IN TWO PRINCIPAL PLANES Karim Kabalan, Mohammed Al-Husseini, Ali El-Hajj Lebanon Session D4 Communication Theory and Systems Saturday, 8 December 2007 09:00-10:40 Tayfun Günel , Professor, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey 16 QUALITY OF SERVICE AND OPTIMAL SELECTION OF TRAFFIC CONTROL SCHEME IN ATM NETWORK Matej Kavacky, Ivan Baronak Slovakia 69 HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF A TENT MAP-BASED CHAOTIC GENERATOR Cristian-Iulian Rincu, Vasile-Gabriel Iana, Gheorghe Serban, Ion Tutanescu Romania 93 POSITION BASED HYBRID ROUTING ALGORITHM IN WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS Resul Kara, Ibrahim Ozcelik, Huseyin Ekiz Turkey 46 A FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZER WITH COINCIDENCE MIXER Milan Stork Czech Republic 113 OPTIMIZATION OF AN ANALOG CUBIC PREDISTORTER FOR MULTICARRIER COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS Cebrail Ciftlikli, A. Cagri Yapici, A. Tuncay Ozsahin Turkey Session D5 Optoelectronics Saturday, 8 December 2007 11:00-12:40 Milan Stork , Professor, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic 218 ELECTRONIC SIMULATOR OF AN FBG SENSOR INTERROGATOR Seyhan Coskun, Gokalp Kahraman Turkey 225 THE PERIODIC INDEX OF REFRACTION MODULATION EFFECT ON OPTICAL SWITCHING PERFORMANCE IN NONLINEAR PERIODIC GRATING STRUCTURES Ali Rostami, Mahin Tahmasebpour Iran 275 SPONTANEOUS RAMAN POWER AND BRILLOUIN FREQUENCY SHIFT METHOD BASED DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE AND STRAIN DETECTION IN POWER CABLES Abdurrahman Gunday, Gunes Yilmaz, Sait Eser Karlik Turkey 56 A COMPARISON OF BANDWIDTH IN RCE-SAGCM-APD AND WG-SACM-APD STRUCTURES, BASED ON PSPICE MODEL Naser Lotfivand, Hassan Rasooli Saghai Iran 127 BIAS AND GEOMETRICAL EFFECTS ON OPTICALLY CONTROLLED MESFETS Mohammad Alsunaidi Saudi Arabia 262 EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE ON POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION OF G.652 OPTICAL FIBERS Sait Eser Karlik, Gunes Yilmaz Turkey Session D6 Biomedical Electronics Saturday, 8 December 2007 14:00-15:40 Sadik Esener , Professor, University of California, San Diego, USA 10 HEART RATE MEASUREMENT FROM THE FINGER USING A LOW-COST MICROCONTROLLER Dogan Ibrahim, Kadri Buruncuk Turkish Republic Northern Cyprus 231 A LOW-COST WIRELESS HEALTHCARE MONITORING SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION TO A CLINICAL ALARM STATION Veysel Aslantas, Rifat Kurban, Tuba Caglikantar Turkey 186 MODELING OF A THERMOELECTRIC BRAIN COOLER BY ADAPTIVE NEURO-FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEM A. Hakan Yavuz, Rasit Ahiska, Mahmut Hekim Turkey 110 ECG SIGNALS PROCESSING USING WAVELETS Gordan Cornelia, Reiz Romulus Romania 32 THE CORRELATION ANALYSIS BETWEEN AIRFLOW AND OXYGEN SATURATION IN SLEEP APNEA EVENTS Necmettin Sezgin, Mehmet Akin, Gokhan Kirbas Turkey 82 AN INVESTIGATION OF NOISE RESISTANCE OF SPEECH STRATEGIES IN COCHLEAR INPLANTS Yahya Ozturk, Gulden Kokturk Turkey Session D7 Other Topics Saturday, 8 December 2007 16:00-17:40 Ali El-Hajj , Professor, American University of Beirut, Lebanon 180 DISCRETE DATA SMOOTHING TECHNIQUE FOR NOISE REDUCTION Masoud Ghoreishi Madiseh, Vahid Tabataba Vakily Iran 135 IMPLEMENTATION OF SUBBAND CODING ON FARSI SPEECH LANGUAGE Razie Mohammadi, Rassoul Amirfattahi Iran 15 STUDENT TIME TABLE BY USING GRAPH COLORING ALGORITHM Baki Koyuncu, Mahmut Secir Turkey 232 AN APPROACH FOR EYE DETECTION IN IMAGES WITH UNCONSTRAINED BACKGROUNDS IN REAL-TIME USING PARALLEL GENETIC ALGORITHM A. Cagatay Talay Turkey 54 A 2.2GHZ-2.9V CHARGE PUMP PHASE LOCKED LOOP DESIGN AND ANALYSIS Diary Sulaiman Iraq Session E1 Poster Session Saturday, Saturday, 8 December 2007 09:00-17:40 Gülay Tohumoğlu , Professor, Gaziantep University, Turkey Hasbi İsmailoğlu , Asst.Professor, Kocaeli University, Turkey 91 POWER DISTORTION ISSUES IN WIND TURBINE POWER SYSTEMS UNDER TRANSIENT STATES Tadeusz Lobos, Jacek Rezmer, Tomasz Sikorski, Zbigniew Waclawek Poland 62 DETERMINATION AND ALLOCATION OF REACTIVE POWER LOSS IN DEREGULATED POWER SYSTEMS IN THE PRESENCE OF MULTİLATERAL MULTIPLE CONTRACTS A.Kazemi, Pejman Bayat Iran 21 IMPROVED CONTROL STRATEGY FOR THREE-PHASE AC CHOPPERS UNDER INDUCTION MOTOR LOAD Ali Eltamaly, A. Alolah Saudi Arabia 203 SCHEDULING OF PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE FOR GENERATING UNIT CONSIDERING COST Dong Jin Kim, Jun Seok Shin, Jin O Kim, Hyung Chul Kim Korea 44 A LYAPUNOV THEORY BASED UPFC CONTROLLER FOR POWER FLOW CONTROL Ali Zangeneh, Ahad Kazemi, Majid Hajatipour, Shahram Jadid Iran 67 A NEW SENSORLESS CONTROL TECHNIQUE FOR PFC OPERATION OF AC-DC BUCK CONVERTER Zoheir Hooshi, Seyed Hossein Hosseini Iran 165 NUMERICAL SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS OF IGBT TURN-OFF CHARACTERISTICS: dV/dt CAPABILITY Lynda Benbahouche, Merabet Ali Algeria 103 ACCURATE FAULT LOCATION IN PRIMARY DISTRIBUTION LINES WITH EMBEDDED GENERATION USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS Yilmaz Aslan Turkey 104 IMPACT OF WIND POWER PLANTS INTEGRATION INTO ELECTRIC POWER NETWORK OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC Jiri Maly Antonin Matousek Czech Republic 223 A SINGLE PHASE SIX-SWITCH INVERTER WITH TWO FIX AND VARIABLE OUTPUT VOLTAGES Khalil Gorgani Firouzjah, Shokrollah Bahrami Samani, Mohammad Bagher Sharifian, Taraneh Herizchi Iran 281 CHOOSING OF ENERGY SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY BY APPLYING "GAME THEORY" K. Ramazanov, N. Ramazanov, Ahmet Nayir, A. Salimova Azerbaijan, Turkey 39 TRANSFORMER HARMONICS SİMULATION AND THE EFFECT OF LEAKAGE INDUCTANCE ON IT Babak Abdi, Jafar Milimonfared, Seyed Hamid Fathi, Arash Rahnamaee Iran 33 THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF HYDROMAGNETIC LUBRICATION FILM FLOW BETWEEN PARALLEL DISCS Teymuraz Abbasov, Arif Memmedov Turkey 213 DESIGN OF A FUZZY EXPERT SYSTEM FOR MAGNETIC FILTER PERFORMANCE ACCORDING TO MAGNETIC FIELD Ismail Saritas, Ilker Ali Ozkan, Saadetdin Herdem Turkey 271 DEFINITION OF THE EFFECT OF YARN VIBRATION ON DETECTION AND DETERMINATION OF PHOTODETECTOR DIMENSIONS Eldar Musayev, Ismail Tekin Turkey 248 PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT of an AUTOMATED MEDIA CONTENT RECOGNITION SYSTEM Berk Ustundag, Celal Ergun Turkey 25 INDUCTANCE OF COAXIAL CABLE Oldrich Coufal Czech Republic 28 LOW COST FIBER OPTIC ANGULAR VELOCITY SENSOR Volkan Yusuf Senyurek, H. Selcuk Varol Turkey 235 TERRAIN SIGNATURE BASED NAVIGATION Mustafa Kamasak, Berk Ustundag Turkey 121 DESIGN OF 10 GIGABIT PMD SUBLAYER BY OPTSIM VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT Mustafa Baha Bayram, Aynur Akar Turkey 261 PRESERVING FINE DETAILS IN HIGHLY CORRUPTED IMAGES BY REDUCTION OF IMPULSIVE NOISE USING MULTILAYER PERCEPTRON NEURAL NETWORKS Ovunc Polat, Tulay Yildirim Turkey