Melih Bastopcu

Book Chapters

1. M. Bastopcu, B. Buyukates and S. Ulukus, Age of Information in Source Coding, Age of information: Foundations and Applications, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2021.

Submitted Journal Papers (Under Review)

1. R. K. Velicheti, M. Bastopcu, and T. Bașar, Value of Information in Games with Multiple Strategic Information Providers, submitted October 2023.

2. M. Bastopcu, S. R. Etesami, and T. Bașar, Online and Offline Dynamic Influence Maximization Games Over Social Networks, submitted September 2023.

Journal Papers (Published/To Appear)

1. M. Bastopcu, S. R. Etesami, and T. Bașar, The Role of Gossiping for Information Dissemination over Networked Agents, Entropy, special issue on Foundations of Goal-Oriented Semantic Communication in Intelligent Networks, 26(1), 9, December 2023.

2. S. Aggarwal, M. A. Zaman, M. Bastopcu, and T. Bașar, Weighted Age of Information based Scheduling for Large Population Games on Networks, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (Special Issue: The Role of Freshness and Semantic Measures in the Transmission of Information for Next Generation Networks), 4:682-697, November 2023.

3. P. Kaswan, M. Bastopcu and S. Ulukus, Timely Cache Updating in Parallel Multi-Relay Networks, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, to appear.

4. M. Bastopcu and S. Ulukus, Using Timeliness in Tracking Infections, Entropy, special issue on Age of Information: Concept, Metric and Tool for Network Control, 24(6), 779, May 2022.

5. B. Buyukates, M. Bastopcu and S. Ulukus, Version Age of Information in Clustered Gossip Networks, IEEE Jour. on Selected Areas in Information Theory, 3(1):85-97, March 2022.

6. M. Bastopcu and S. Ulukus, Age of Information for Updates with Distortion: Constant and Age-Dependent Distortion Constraints, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 29(6):2425-2438, December 2021..

7. M. Bastopcu and S. Ulukus, Information Freshness in Cache Updating Systems, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, 20(3):1861-1874, March 2021.

8. M. Bastopcu, B. Buyukates and S. Ulukus, Selective Encoding Policies for Maximizing Information Freshness, IEEE Trans. on Communications, 69(9):5714-5726, September 2021.

9. M. Bastopcu and S. Ulukus, Minimizing Age of Information with Soft Updates, Journal of Communications and Networks, special issue on Age of Information, 21(3):233-243, June 2019.

10. M. Bastopcu, A. Derinoz, A. Yilmaz and Y Erdem, Textured surfaces as a new platform for nanoparticle synthesis, Soft Matter, 14(21):4311-4316, April 2018.

Conference Papers

1. R. K. Velicheti, M. Bastopcu, S. R. Etesami, and T. Bașar, Learning How to Strategically Disclose Information. Submitted.

2. S. Aggarwal, M.A. uz Zaman, M. Bastopcu, and T. Bașar, Large Population Games on Constrained Unreliable Networks, 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2023), Singapore, December, 2023.

3. S. Aggarwal, M.A. uz Zaman, M. Bastopcu, and T. Bașar, Large Population Games with Timely Scheduling over Constrained Networks, 2023 American Control Conference (ACC), San Diego, California, USA. May-June, 2023.

4. R. K. Velicheti, M. Bastopcu, and T. Bașar, Strategic Information Design in Quadratic Multidimensional Persuasion Games with Two Senders, 2023 American Control Conference (ACC), San Diego, California, USA. May-June, 2023.

5. M. Bastopcu, S. R. Etesami, and T. Bașar, The Dissemination of Time-Varying Information Over Networked Agents With Gossiping, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Espoo, Finland, June-July 2022.

6. M. Bastopcu, B. Buyukates and S. Ulukus, Gossiping with Binary Freshness Metric, IEEE Global Communications Conference, Madrid, Spain, December 2021.

7. B. Buyukates, M. Bastopcu and S. Ulukus, Age of Gossip in Networks with Community Structure, IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, Lucca, Italy, September 2021. (Best Student Paper Award-First Place)

8. P. Kaswan, M. Bastopcu and S. Ulukus, Freshness Based Cache Updating in Parallel Relay Networks, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Melbourne, Australia, July 2021.

9. M. Bastopcu and S. Ulukus, Timely Tracking of Infection Status of Individuals in a Population, IEEE Infocom Workshop on Age of Information, May 2021.

10. M. Bastopcu and S. Ulukus, Timely Group Updating, Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Baltimore, MD, March 2021.

11. M. Bastopcu and S. Ulukus, Cache Freshness in Information Updating Systems, Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Baltimore, MD, March 2021.

12. M. Bastopcu and S. Ulukus, Maximizing Information Freshness in Caching Systems with Limited Cache Storage Capacity, 54th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 2020.

13. M. Bastopcu and S. Ulukus, Partial Updates: Losing Information for Freshness, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Los Angeles, CA, June 2020.

14. B. Buyukates, M. Bastopcu and S. Ulukus, Optimal Selective Encoding for Timely Updates with Empty Symbol, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Los Angeles, CA, June 2020.

15. M. Bastopcu and S. Ulukus, Who Should Google Scholar Update More Often?, IEEE Infocom Workshop on Age of Information, Toronto, Canada, July 2020.

16. M. Bastopcu, B. Buyukates and S. Ulukus, Optimal Selective Encoding for Timely Updates, Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 2020.

17. M. Bastopcu and S. Ulukus, Age of Information for Updates with Distortion, IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Visby, Gotland, Sweden, August 2019.

18. M. Bastopcu and S. Ulukus, Scheduling a Human Channel, 52nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, October 2018.

19. M. Bastopcu and S. Ulukus, Age of Information with Soft Updates, 56th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, October 2018.

20. M. Bastopcu, A. Güngör and H. E. Güven, An efficient algorithm for model based blind deconvolution, Computational Imaging II, Anaheim, CA, April 2017.