Ozgur H. Aydogmus

Professor, Department of Economics

Social Sciences University of Ankara (ASBU)  ·  Ankara, Turkey

ozgur.aydogmus@asbu.edu.tr Google Scholar ORCID

Education

  • Iowa State University, Ames, IA — Ph.D. Applied Mathematics (2008–2013)
    Dissertation: Non-local interactions in spatial evolutionary games
  • Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
    M.S. Mathematics (2005–2007)  |  B.S. Mathematics (1999–2004)

Fields of Interest

Evolutionary game theory  ·  Stochastic processes and their deterministic limits  ·  Mathematical models in biology and social sciences  ·  Pattern formation in ecological models  ·  Machine learning (instance selection, data reduction, clustering)

Academic Appointments

  • Professor & Chair (2024–Present) — Department of Economics, ASBU
  • Visiting Scholar (2021–2022) — Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ
  • Associate Professor (2019–2024) — Department of Economics, ASBU
  • Assistant Professor (2014–2019) — Department of Economics, ASBU
  • Lecturer (2013–2014) — Social Sciences University of Ankara

Preprints & Working Papers

Censored Demand Learning on a Platform Recommendation Graph
with Huseyin Tunc
How algorithmic recommendation distorts newsvendor inventory decisions and harms welfare
In Preparation
The Malikâne Paradox: The State, Farmers and the Co-evolutionary Dynamics of Ottoman Tax-Farming, 1535–1799
with Bora Altay and Erkan Gürpinar
Why a reform that lengthened contract horizons paradoxically raised early-termination rates — a partial-reform trap in an evolutionary game
In Preparation
The Dimension Gap: Classifying Elementary Cellular Automata by Quenched versus Annealed Lyapunov Spectra
Ozgur H. Aydogmus
A computable quantity — the gap between trajectory-specific and mean-field Kaplan–Yorke dimensions — that separates dynamically distinct automata Wolfram's qualitative classes conflate
In Preparation
Slow and Fast Time Scales in Knowledge Economics
with Erkan Gurpinar
In Preparation

Student Supervision

  • Ph.D. Co-supervisor (2021–2025): Huseyin Caliskan (Forestry Engineering, Cankiri Karatekin University)
    Analysis of wood raw material production-consumption relations and sustainability of forests in Turkey with game theory approach: Nash Equilibrium Application
  • Ph.D. Co-supervisor (2015–2017): Ebru Ergunes Berkin (Zoo-Technical Sciences, Ondokuz Mayis University)
    A game theoretical approach to build mating programs for livestock
  • M.A. Supervisor (2015–2016): Serap Sagir (Economics, Social Sciences University of Ankara)
    Optimal auditing for tax evasion

Preprints & Under Review

A Unified Instance Selection Approach Based on Distributional Similarity for Machine Learning
with Huseyin Tunc
Preprint Under Review PDF Code & Data
Evolutionary Dynamics of Knowledge Production: The Interplay of Tacitness, Social Preferences and Intellectual Property Rights
with Erkan Gurpinar
Preprint Under Review SSRN

Refereed Journal Publications

[22]
From Local Payoffs to Global Instabilities: A Spectral Cartography of Spatiotemporal Chaos in Canonical 2×2 Evolutionary Games
Ozgur H. Aydogmus
Physical Review E, 2026
PDF arXiv Code & Data
[21]
Deterministic Approximation of a Stochastic Imitation Dynamics with Memory
with Yun Kang
Dynamic Games and Applications, 2024
PDF
[20]
The Production and Dissemination of Knowledge and Positive Externalities: A Game Theoretic Approach
with Erkan Gurpinar
Vizyoner Dergisi, 2023
PDF
[19]
Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in Knowledge Creation and Their Effects on the Dynamics of Patent Pools
Ozgur H. Aydogmus
Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2022
PDF
[18]
The Limits of Knowledge as a Public Good: A Strategic Approach to Tacit Knowledge
with Erkan Gurpinar
Journal of Yasar University, 2022
PDF
[17]
A Game Theoretic Approach to Build Mating Programs for Livestock
with Ebru Berkin Ergunes, Hasan Onder
Turkish Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, 2022
PDF
[16]
Science, Technology and Institutional Change in Knowledge Production: An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Framework
with Erkan Gurpinar
Dynamic Games and Applications, 2022
PDF
[15]
Analysis of Stationary Patterns Arising from a Time-Discrete Metapopulation Model with Nonlocal Competition
with Yun Kang
Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-B, 2022
PDF
[14]
A Modified Multiple Shooting Algorithm for Parameter Estimation in ODEs Using Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis
with A. Hakan Tor
Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2022
PDF
[13]
Does Social Learning Promote Cooperation in Social Dilemmas?
with Hasan Cagatay, Erkan Gurpinar
Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 2020
PDF
[12]
Implementation of Growth Curves and Interpolation Methods for Fattening Continuation Decision
with Ebru Berkin Ergunes, Hasan Onder
Black Sea Journal of Agriculture, 2019
PDF
[11]
Discovering the Effect of Nonlocal Payoff Calculation on the Stability of ESS: Spatial Patterns of Hawk-Dove Game in Metapopulations
Ozgur H. Aydogmus
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2018
PDF
[10]
Phase Transitions in a Logistic Metapopulation Model with Nonlocal Competition
Ozgur H. Aydogmus
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2018
PDF
[9]
Moran-type Bounds for the Fixation Probability in a Frequency-Dependent Wright-Fisher Model
with Timothy Chumley, Anastasios Matzavinos, Alexander Roitershtein
Journal of Mathematical Biology, 2018
PDF
[8]
On the Preservation of Cooperation in Two-Strategy Games with Nonlocal Interactions
with Wen Zhou, Yun Kang
Mathematical Biosciences, 2017
PDF
[7]
The Role of Tacit Knowing in Adherence to Social Norms
with Hasan Cagatay, Erkan Gurpinar, Fuat Oguz
Filosofia Unisinos, 2017
PDF
[6]
Dynamical Effects of Nonlocal Interactions in Discrete-Time Growth-Dispersal Models with Logistic-Type Nonlinearities
with Yun Kang, M. Emre Kavgaci, Huseyin Berketoglu
Ecological Complexity, 2017
PDF
[5]
A Discrete Time Model for Epidemic Spread: Traveling Waves and Spreading Speeds
Ozgur H. Aydogmus
Communications Faculty of Sciences Ankara University A1 Mathematics and Statistics, 2017
PDF
[4]
On Extinction Time of a Generalized Endemic Chain-Binomial Model
Ozgur H. Aydogmus
Mathematical Biosciences, 2016
PDF
[3]
Colored Maximal Branching Process
with Arka P. Ghosh, Subhomoy Ghosh, Alexander Roitershtein
Theory of Probability and its Applications, 2015
PDF
[2]
Patterns and Transitions to Instability in an Intraspecific Competition Model with Nonlocal Diffusion and Interaction
Ozgur H. Aydogmus
Mathematical Modeling of Natural Phenomena, 2015
PDF
[1]
On Point-Line Displacement in Minkowski 3-Space
with Levent Kula, Yusuf Yayli
Differential Geometry–Dynamical Systems, 2008
PDF

Books & Book Chapters

A Game-Theoretical Analysis of Source Allocation in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Under Contractual Relationships: Case of Thessaloniki Customs
with Hande Nur Kirmizikusak
In B. Altay (Ed.), Revenue-Raising Institutions, State Organization and Economic Change, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025
PDF
Limits of Mathematical Models in Social Sciences
Ozgur H. Aydogmus
In E. Gurpinar (Ed.), Which Human? Rationality, Social Preferences and Game Theory, Efil, 2021
PDF

Social Sciences University of Ankara (ASBU)

Mathematics for Economists I & II (Undergraduate / Graduate)
Game Theory & Topics in Game Theory (Undergraduate / Graduate)
Data Analytics and Machine Learning
Business Calculus I & II

Iowa State University (Teaching Assistant)

Elementary Differential Equations and Laplace Transforms
Calculus I & II
Discrete Mathematics for Business and Social Sciences
College Algebra

All courses instructed in English.