Data management research at the Middle East Technical University

2005-09-01
Cicekli, NK
Cosar, A
Dogac, A
Polat, Faruk
Senkul, P
Toroslu, İsmail Hakkı
Yazici, A
The Middle East Technical University (METU) (http://www.metu.edu.tr) is the leading technical university in Turkey. The department of Computer Engineering (http://www.ceng.metu.edu.tr) has twenty seven faculty members with PhDs, 550 undergraduate students and 165 graduate-students. The major research funding sources include the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBÍTAK), the European Commission, and the internal research funds of METU. Data management research conducted in the department is summarized in this article.
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Citation Formats
N. Cicekli et al., “Data management research at the Middle East Technical University,” SIGMOD RECORD, pp. 81–84, 2005, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/37635.