Fuzzy C-Means Clustering of Ships Passing Through Turkish Straits

Cengiz Vefa Ekici; Ozcan Arslan; Ulku Ozturk

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-09173-5_43

Fuzzy C-Means Clustering of Ships Passing Through Turkish Straits

Cengiz Vefa Ekici^*, Ozcan Arslan, Ulku Ozturk

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Maritime Transportation and Management Engineering

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

2 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Maritime authorities not only have ensured reactive but also proactive measures in the straits, canals and narrow waterways with geographical restrictions and high traffic density to mitigate possible accident risks. These measures include a variety of approaches to conducting a realistic risk analysis. Considering the previous accidents, increasing traffic density and unique difficulties in the Turkish Straits, taking proactive measures to ensure their safety has become an important issue. Furthermore, a wide variety of ships navigating this waterway have been having difficulties in making good judgments. Therefore, this study has focused on the clustering of the ships in the Turkish Straits which can be deemed as the first step of realistic risk analysis in narrow waterways. Fuzzy C-Means clustering method has been employed, based on Sailing Plan-1 reports data between 2005 and 2021 in order to reveal maritime traffic characteristics for further analysis. Results have shown that three clusters are suitable for ship risk profile as a first step but an additional hierarchical layer may be needed to overcome the contradictory situations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems - Digital Acceleration and The New Normal - Proceedings of the INFUS 2022 Conference
Editors	Cengiz Kahraman, Sezi Cevik Onar, Basar Oztaysi, Irem Ucal Sari, A. Cagri Tolga, Selcuk Cebi
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	352-359
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9783031091728
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09173-5_43
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	International Conference on Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, INFUS 2022 - Izmir, Turkey Duration: 19 Jul 2022 → 21 Jul 2022

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume	504 LNNS
ISSN (Print)	2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)	2367-3389

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, INFUS 2022
Country/Territory	Turkey
City	Izmir
Period	19/07/22 → 21/07/22

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Keywords

Fuzzy clustering
Maritime safety
Narrow waterways
Turkish Straits

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10.1007/978-3-031-09173-5_43

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Ekici, C. V., Arslan, O., & Ozturk, U. (2022). Fuzzy C-Means Clustering of Ships Passing Through Turkish Straits. In C. Kahraman, S. Cevik Onar, B. Oztaysi, I. U. Sari, A. C. Tolga, & S. Cebi (Eds.), Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems - Digital Acceleration and The New Normal - Proceedings of the INFUS 2022 Conference (pp. 352-359). (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 504 LNNS). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09173-5_43

Ekici, Cengiz Vefa ; Arslan, Ozcan ; Ozturk, Ulku. / Fuzzy C-Means Clustering of Ships Passing Through Turkish Straits. Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems - Digital Acceleration and The New Normal - Proceedings of the INFUS 2022 Conference. editor / Cengiz Kahraman ; Sezi Cevik Onar ; Basar Oztaysi ; Irem Ucal Sari ; A. Cagri Tolga ; Selcuk Cebi. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022. pp. 352-359 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems).

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Ekici, CV, Arslan, O & Ozturk, U 2022, Fuzzy C-Means Clustering of Ships Passing Through Turkish Straits. in C Kahraman, S Cevik Onar, B Oztaysi, IU Sari, AC Tolga & S Cebi (eds), Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems - Digital Acceleration and The New Normal - Proceedings of the INFUS 2022 Conference. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 504 LNNS, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 352-359, International Conference on Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, INFUS 2022, Izmir, Turkey, 19/07/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09173-5_43

Fuzzy C-Means Clustering of Ships Passing Through Turkish Straits. / Ekici, Cengiz Vefa; Arslan, Ozcan; Ozturk, Ulku.
Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems - Digital Acceleration and The New Normal - Proceedings of the INFUS 2022 Conference. ed. / Cengiz Kahraman; Sezi Cevik Onar; Basar Oztaysi; Irem Ucal Sari; A. Cagri Tolga; Selcuk Cebi. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022. p. 352-359 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 504 LNNS).

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Ekici CV, Arslan O, Ozturk U. Fuzzy C-Means Clustering of Ships Passing Through Turkish Straits. In Kahraman C, Cevik Onar S, Oztaysi B, Sari IU, Tolga AC, Cebi S, editors, Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems - Digital Acceleration and The New Normal - Proceedings of the INFUS 2022 Conference. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2022. p. 352-359. (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-09173-5_43