Research Publications

 

· S. Küçükçifçi, C. C. Lindner, and E. Ş. Yazıcı, “The full metamorphosis of l-fold block designs with block size four into l-fold triple systems”, Ars Combinatoria, accepted for publication.

 

· S. Küçükçifçi, C. C. Lindner, and E. Ş. Yazıcı, “The full metamorphosis of l-fold block designs with block size four into l-fold 4-cycle systems”, Ars Combinatoria, accepted for publication.

 

· E. J. Billington, S. Küçükçifçi, C. C. Lindner, and E. Ş. Yazıcı, “Embedding 4-cycle systems into octagon triple systems”, Util. Math., accepted for publication.

 

· S. Küçükçifçi, C. C. Lindner, and G. Quattrocchi, “Embeddings of P3-designs into bowtie and almost bowtie systems”, Discrete Math., accepted for publication.

 

· S. Küçükçifçi and G. Yücetürk, “Maximum packing for perfect four-triple configurations”, Discrete Math., Vol 308, Issues 5-6 (2008) 753-762.

 

· S. Küçükçifçi, “The intersection problem for PBD(5*,3)s”, Discrete Math., Vol 308, Issues 2-3 (2008) 382-385.

 

· Ö. Özkasap, E. Ş. Yazıcı, S. Küçükçifçi, and M. Çağlar, “Exact performance measures for peer-to-peer epidemic information diffusion”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, 4263 (2006) 866-876.

 

· E. Ş. Yazıcı, S. Küçükçifçi, M. Çağlar,  and Ö. Özkasap, “Exact probability distributions for peer-to-peer epidemic information diffusion”, Sigmetrics, Proceedings of Performance MAMA 2006 Workshop.

 

· S. Küçükçifçi, C. C. Lindner and C. A. Rodger,  “A partial kite system of order n can be embedded in a kite system of order at most 8n+9”, Ars Combinatoria, 79 (2006) 257-268.

 

· S. Küçükçifçi, “The metamorphosis of l-fold block designs with block size four into a maximum packing of lKn with kites”, Util. Math., 68 (2005) 165-195.

 

· S. Küçükçifçi  and C. C. Lindner, “Minimum covering for hexagon triples”, Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 32 (2004) 251-265.

 

· S. Küçükçifçi  and C. C. Lindner, “Perfect hexagon triple systems”,  Discrete Math., Vol 279, Issues 1-3 (2004) 325-335.

 

· S. Küçükçifçi, C. C. Lindner and A. Rosa, “The metamorphosis of l-fold block designs with block size four into a maximum packing of lKn with 4-cycles”, Discrete Math., Vol 278, Issues 1-3 (2004) 175-193.

 

· S. Küçükçifçi  and C. C. Lindner, “The metamorphosis of l-fold block designs with block size four into l-fold K4 \ e - systems, l ³ 2”, Util. Math., 63 (2003) 239-254.

 

· S. Küçükçifçi, “Cycles in 2-factorizations of Kn”, Anadolu University Journal of Science and Technology, Vol 3, Number 3 (2002) 413-419.

 

· S. Küçükçifçi, “The number of 8-cycles in 2-factorizations of Kn minus a 1-factor”, Util. Math., 61 (2002) 225-237.

 

· S. Küçükçifçi  and C.C. Lindner, “The metamorphosis of l-fold block designs with block size four into l-fold kite systems”, J. Combin. Mat. Combin. Comput., 40 (2002) 241-252.

 

· S. Küçükçifçi, “The number of 8-cycles in 2-factorizations of Kn”, Australas. J. of Combin., Vol 22 (2000) 201-218.

 

 

Papers in Review Process

 

· “An analytical framework for self-organizing peer-to-peer anti-entropy algorithms”, with M. Çağlar, Ö. Özkasap, and E. Ş. Yazıcı, (submitted for publication).

 

 

Conference Presentations

 

· 31st Southestern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA,  March 2000.

(Presentation: “The number of 8-cycles in 2-factorizations of  Kn”)

 

· 32nd Southestern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA,  March 2001.

(Presentation: “The metamorphosis of l-fold block designs with block size four into l-fold K4 \ e - systems, l ³ 2”)

 

· Ulusal Matematik Sempozyumu, Anadolu Üniversitesi, Eskişehir, September 2001.

(Presentation: “Tam grafların özel parçalanışlarındaki döngüler”)

 

· 33rd Southestern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, March 2002.

(Presentation: “Perfect hexagon triple systems”)

 

· Antalya Algebra Days, Antalya, May 2002.

(Presentation: “The metamorphosis of l-fold block designs with block size four into l-fold kite systems”)

 

· Combinatorics 2002, Università della Basilicata, Maratea, Italy, June 2002.

(Presentation: “Perfect hexagon triple systems”)

 

 · 3rd Pythagorean Conference, An Advanced Research Workshop in Geometry, Combinatorial Designs, and Cryptology, Faliraki, Rhodes, Greece, June 2003.

(Presentation: “Minimum covering for perfect hexagon triple systems”)

 

· International Symposium on Graphs, Designs, and Applications, Messina, Italy, September 2003.

(Presentation: “Minimum covering for perfect hexagon triple systems”)

 

· İstatistik Fizik Günleri, İTÜ, İstanbul, June 2004.

(Presentation: “Combinatorial design theory”)

 

· Combinatorics 2004, Università degli studi di Catania, Acireale, Italy, September 2004.

(Presentation: “The intersection problem for PBD(5*,3)s”)

 

· 20th British Combinatorial Conference, University of Durham, Durham, UK, July 2005.

(Presentation: “Maximum packing for perfect four-triple configurations”)

 

· Workshop on Algebraic and Geometric Aspects of Latin Trades, Prague, Czech Republic, February 2006.

(Presentation:  “The intersection problem for PBD(5*,3)s”)

 

· Combinatorics 2006, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Seconda Università di Napoli, Ischia, Italy, June-July 2006.

(Presentation: “The full metamorphosis of  l-fold block designs with block size four into l-fold triple systems”)

 

· Design Theory of Alex Rosa, Bratislava, Slovakia, July 2007.

(Presentation: “Embedding 4-cycle systems into octagon triple systems”)

 

 

Conference Organizations

 

· 1st İstanbul Design Theory and Combinatorics Conference in Honor of 70th Birthday of Curt Lindner

 

 

Mathematics articles in non-academic journals

 

· S. Küçükçifçi, “Steiner üçlü sistemleri ve çizgeler” (Steiner triple systems and graphs), Matematik Dünyası, Vol.:13, Issue: 4 (2004) 22-27.

 

· S. Küçükçifçi and Sibel Özkan, “Tasarımlar” (Designs), Matematik Dünyası, Vol.:13, Issue: 4 (2004) 28-34.
 

· S. Küçükçifçi, “Afin ve izdüşümsel düzlemler” (Affine and projective planes), Matematik Dünyası, Vol.:13, Issue: 4 (2004) 42-46.

 · S. Küçükçifçi, “Hadamard matrisleri” (Hadamard matrices), Matematik Dünyası, Vol.:13, Issue: 4 (2004) 51-54.

 · S. Küçükçifçi, “Kapsayıcı ağaç sayısı” (The number of spanning trees), Matematik Dünyası, Vol.:14, Issue: 1 (2005) 46-49.

 

Thesis supervised

M.S. Thesis:

 

• Güven Yücetürk, “Group divisible designs”, Koç University, 2006.

 

• Çiçek Güven, “Coloring of Steiner triple systems”, Koç University, 2007.

 

Work as a committee member of M.S. and Ph.D. thesis:

Ph.D. Thesis:

• Murat Tezer, “Cycle decomposition and graph labelings”, Eastern Mediterranean University, 2003.

M.S. Thesis:

• Hayri Ardal, “Coloring problem in combinatorial structure”, Boğaziçi University, 2002.

• Selin Enüst Çalışkan, “Room squares and related combinatorial objects”, Boğaziçi University, 2003.

• Emre Kolotoğlu, “Defining sets of designs”, Koç University, 2007.