One-day joint workshop-cum-seminar on Soft Computing Methods in Water Resources Engineering was held at ITU Continuing Education Center in Nicosia on November 29, 2016 with the collaboration of ITU-TRNC Education and Research Campuses and University of Tabriz.

Dr. Ali DANANDEH MEHR, secretary of the workshop, mentioned that well-known professors in the field of soft computing from Turkey, Iran and Denmark were invited to the workshop as keynote speakers. According to the information provided by Dr. DANANDEH MEHR, various lectures and papers about Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Programming and Hybrid Models in Water Resources Engineering were presented at the workshop-cum-seminar sessions. He also mentioned that all the papers presented during the seminar will be published online on the workshop page (www.scmwre.com) on December 1, 2016 and thus, will be available to those who are interested in the subject.

Keynote speakers were Prof. Vahid NOURANI from University of Tabriz, Prof. Gökmen TAYFUR from İzmir Institute of Technology, Prof. Serhat ŞEKER from İstanbul Technical University, and Dr. Mehmet C. DEMİREL from Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Denmark.

Academic staff, researchers and post graduate students from various universities including Istanbul Technical University, University of Tabriz, Urmia University, Meddle East Technical University- North Cyprus Campus, Eastern Mediterranean University, and Near East University attended the workshop-cum-seminar, which was collaboratively held by ITU-TRNC and University of Tabriz.

The participants to the seminar were Prof. Ercan KAHYA, Assoc. Prof. Serdar KUM, Assist. Prof. Aslı ÇEKMİŞ, Dr. Ali Danandeh MEHR from ITU North Cyprus; Assist. Prof. Elnaz SHARGHI, Saeed SOLEIMANI, Sina RAHMANI, Faramarz FEYZI from University of Tabriz; Prof. Ali Unal ŞORMAN from Near East University; Assoc. Prof. Umut TÜRKER, Hüseyin HAKSAYAR, Pakhshan AHMADIAN, Mohammad H. MASOUMINIA, Burhan HAMA from Eastern Mediterranean University; Dr. Bertuğ AKINTUĞ from METU North Cyprus; Hasan ZAİFOĞLU from Middle East Technical University; Saeed VAZİFEKHAH, Buğrayhan Biçkici ARIKAN, Sead AHMED from Istanbul Technical University; Seyed Saber SHARIFI from Urmia University and Mohanna VAHED from Islamic Azad University.

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