Publications by authors named "Cigdem Aci"

The dragonfly algorithm (DA) is one of the optimization techniques developed in recent years. The random flying behavior of dragonflies in nature is modeled in the DA using the Levy flight mechanism (LFM). However, LFM has disadvantages such as the overflowing of the search area and interruption of random flights due to its big searching steps.

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Objective: Currently, in Turkey, fault rates in traffic accidents are determined according to the initiative of accident experts (no speed analyses of vehicles just considering accident type) and there are no specific quantitative instructions on fault rates related to procession of accidents which just represents the type of collision (side impact, head to head, rear end, etc.) in No. 2918 Turkish Highway Traffic Act (THTA 1983).

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