Dr. Alperen Bektas

Profile

Dr. Alperen Bektas Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Contact

Contact hours Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Address Berner Fachhochschule
Business School
Institut Public Sector Transformation
Brückenstrasse 73
3005 Bern

Teaching

Degree programmes

Master wirtschaftsinformatik
Bachelor wirtschaftsinformatik

Subjects

Databases
Software Development
Enabling Technologies

Research

Specialisations

Smart City
Machine Learning
Economic Modeling
Smart Governance
Public Sector Transformation

CV

Professional experience

2020- Scientific Collaborator Berner Fachhochschule
2017-2021 Research Assistant HES-SO Valais/Wallis

Education

2018-2022 PhD in Economics Université de Neuchâtel
2014-2016 MSc in Computer Science Free University of Brussels
2010-2014 BSc in Computer Science Hacettepe University
2012-2013 BSc in Informatics (Exchange Student) Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg

Projects

Projects at the BFH

Publications

How to Optimize Gower Distance Weights for the k-Medoids Clustering Algorithm to Obtain Mobility Profiles of the Swiss Population

A. Bektas and R. Schumann, "How to Optimize Gower Distance Weights for the k-Medoids Clustering Algorithm to Obtain Mobility Profiles of the Swiss Population," 2019 6th Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS), Bern, Switzerland, 2019, pp. 51-56, doi: 10.1109/SDS.2019.000-8.

Using Mobility Profiles for Synthetic Population Generation

Alperen Bektas and René Schumann, Using Mobility Profiles for Synthetic Population Generation, in: Social Simulation Conference (SSC), Mainz, Springer, 2019

People-centric policies for decarbonization: Testing psycho-socio-economic approaches by an agent-based model of heterogeneous mobility demand

Alperen Bektas, Khoa Nguyen, Valentino Piana and René Schumann, People-centric policies for decarbonization: Testing psycho-socio-economic approaches by an agent-based model of heterogeneous mobility demand, in: CEF 2018 24th Annual Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, Milan, 2018

Can Agent-Based Computational Economics Mimic Neoclassical Demand Curve?

Alperen Bektas, Khoa Nguyen and René Schumann, Can Agent-Based Computational Economics Mimic Neoclassical Demand Curve?, Conference poster and presentation, presented at "Fifth International Symposium in Computational Economics and Finance", 2018

A meso-level empirical validation approach for agent-based computational economic models drawing on micro-data: a use case with a mobility mode-choice model

Bektas, Alperen; Piana, Valentino; Schumann, René (2021). A meso-level empirical validation approach for agent-based computational economic models drawing on micro-data: a use case with a mobility mode-choice model Springer Nature Business & Economics, 1(6) Springer Nature 10.1007/s43546-021-00083-4 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43546-021-00083-4>

Who is buying EVs in Switzerland and who could be next? Insights and policy lessons from SHEDS panel data

Valentino Piana, Weber Sylvain, Alperen Bektas and René Schumann, Who is buying EVs in Switzerland and who could be next? Insights and policy lessons from SHEDS panel data, 2019

On the Way to Smarter Cities: What Goals and Values Swiss Municipalities prioritize

Wäspi, Flurina; Bektas, Alperen; Sahi, Amir; Wüst, Anja Cristina; Haller, Stephan (September 2022). On the Way to Smarter Cities: What Goals and Values Swiss Municipalities prioritize In: Electronic Government. EGOV. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Vol. 13391 (pp. 451-468). Springer 10.1007/978-3-031-15086-9_29 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15086-9_29>

People-centric policies for decarbonization: Testing psycho-socio-economic approaches by an agent-based model of heterogeneous mobility demand

Bektas, Alperen; Nguyen, Khoa; Piana, Valentino; Schumann, René (June 2018). People-centric policies for decarbonization: Testing psycho-socio-economic approaches by an agent-based model of heterogeneous mobility demand In: 24th Annual Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance. Milan, Italy. June 19-21, 2018.

A smart government platform to promote strategy development in municipalities

Wüst, Anja Cristina; Bektas, Alperen; Wenger, Nicolai; Haller, Stephan (June 2022). A smart government platform to promote strategy development in municipalities In: European Academy of Management (EURAM). ZHAW

InoVille 4.0 – Eine Plattform für strategische Governance in Smart Cities und Smart Municipalities

Bektas, Alperen; Haller, Stephan (26 June 2021). InoVille 4.0 – Eine Plattform für strategische Governance in Smart Cities und Smart Municipalities In: TOGI-Symposium zur nachhaltigen Digitalisierung von Staat, Städten und Verwaltung. Friedrichshafen, Germany. 23.-24.06.2021.

An Empirical Analysis of the Perceived Usefulness of Digital Governance Tools among Heterogeneous Swiss Municipalities

Bektas, Alperen (3 January 2023). An Empirical Analysis of the Perceived Usefulness of Digital Governance Tools among Heterogeneous Swiss Municipalities In: Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2023 (pp. 1880-1889). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: University of Hawaii at Manoa, Shidler College of Business

Language skills and intercultural knowledge

Language skills

English - Native or bilingual proficiency
French - Professional working proficiency
German - Professional working proficiency
Turkish - Native or bilingual proficiency

Intercultural knowledge

Switzerland
Belgium
Turkey