Can Akkan

E-mail : canakkansabanciuniv.edu

Education :

B.S. in Industrial Engineering, Middle East Technical University (1989); Ph.D. in Operations Research, Cornell University (1993)

Work Experience :

Cornell University, 1989-1993; Koç University, 1993-1995, 1997-2003

Areas of Interest :

Design and analysis of discrete-parts manufacturing systems, finite-capacity scheduling of discrete-parts manufacturing systems, project scheduling, applied mathemathical programming

Awards :

CEEMAN Teaching Champion Award - CEEMAN 2015
Graduating Class Teaching Award - Sabancı University 2010
Teaching Assistant of the Year Award, School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering - Cornell University 1993

Membership :

INFORMS

Publications :

Article

Kus, Zeki and Akkan, Can and Gulcu, Ayla (2023) "Novel surrogate measures based on a similarity network for neural architecture search", IEEE Access, Vol.11, 22596-22613 (SCI)

Akkan, Can and Gülcü, Ayla and Kuş, Zeki (2022) "Bi-criteria simulated annealing for the curriculum-based course timetabling problem with robustness approximation", Journal of Scheduling (SI), Vol.25, No.4, 477-501 (SCI)

Akkan, Can and Gülcü, Ayla and Kuş, Zeki (2021) "Minimum penalty perturbation heuristics for curriculum-based timetables subject to multiple disruptions", Computers and Operations Research, Vol.132 (SCI)

Gülcü, Ayla and Akkan, Can (2020) "Robust University course timetabling problem subject to single and multiple disruptions", European Journal of Operational Research, Vol.283, No.2, 630-646 (SCI)

Akkan, Can and Karadayı, Melis Almula and Ekinci, Yeliz and Ülengin, Füsun and Uray, Nimet and Karaosmanoğlu, Elif (2020) "Efficiency analysis of emergency departments in metropolitan areas", Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Vol.69 (SCI, SSCI)

Ermiş, Gülçin and Akkan, Can (2019) "Search algorithms for improving the pareto front in a timetabling problem with a solution network-based robustness measure", Annals of Operations Research, Vol.275, No.1, 101-121 (SCI)

Akkan, Can and Gülcü, Ayla (2018) "A bi-criteria hybrid genetic algorithm with robustness objective for the course timetabling problem", Computers and Operations Research, Vol.90, 22-32 (SCI)

Karadayı, Melis Almula and Ekinci, Yeliz and Akkan, Can and Ülengin, Füsun (2017) "İstanbul için acil servis birimlerinin etkinliğinin kategorik veri zarflama analizi ile değerlendirilmesi (Evaluating efficiency of emergency departments using categorical data envelopment analysis for Istanbul)", Journal of Yasar University, Vol.12, 31-39 (NA)

Koçaş, Cenk and Akkan, Can (2016) "A system for pricing the sales distribution from blockbusters to the long tail", Decision Support Systems, Vol.89, 56-65 (SCI)

Koçaş, Cenk and Akkan, Can (2016) "How trending status and online ratings affect prices of homogeneous products", International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Vol.20, No.3, 384-407 (SCI)

Akkan, Can and Külünk, Erdem Muhammed and Koçaş, Cenk (2016) "Finding robust timetables for project presentations of student teams", European Journal of Operational Research, Vol.249, No.2, 560-576 (SCI)

Akkan, Can (2015) "Improving schedule stability in single-machine rescheduling for new operation insertion", Computers and Operations Research, Vol.64, 198-209 (SCI)

Altekin, Fatma Tevhide and Akkan, Can (2012) "Task-failure-driven rebalancing of disassembly lines", International Journal of Production Research, Vol.50, No.18, 4955-4976 (SCI)

Karabatı, Selçuk and Akkan, Can (2006) "Minimizing sum of completion times on a single machine with sequence-dependent family setup times", Journal of the operational research society, Vol.57, No.3, 271-280 (SCI)

Akkan, Can and Drexl, Andreas and Kimms, Alf (2005) "Network decomposition-based benchmark results for the discrete time-cost tradeoff problem", European Journal of Operational Research, Vol.165, No.2, 339-358 (SCI)

Papers in Conference Proceedings

Akkan, Can and Gulcu, Ayla and Kuş, Zeki, "Search space sampling by simulated annealing for identifying robust solutions in course timetabling", IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, July 2020

Gülcü, Ayla and Akkan, Can, "Bi-criteria simulated annealing algorithms for the robust university course timetabling problem", Burke, Edmund K. and Di Gaspero, Luca and Mc Collum, Barry and Musliu, Nysret and Özcan, Ender (eds.), 12th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2018), TU Wien, August 2018, 129-136

Before SU Publications:

Akkan, C., (1998) "A Prioritized Re-insertion Approach to Production Rescheduling", in Beyond Manufacturing Resource Planning: Advanced Models and Methods for Production Planning, eds. A.Drexl and A. Kimms, Springer-Verlag.

Akkan, C., (1997) “Finite-Capacity Scheduling-Based Planning for Revenue-Based Capacity Management”, European Journal of Operational Research, 100, 170-179.

Akkan, C., (1996) “Overtime Scheduling: An Application in Finite-Capacity Real-Time Scheduling”, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 47, 1137-1149.