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  • Novel antimicrobial nano coated polypropylene based materials for food packaging systems 
    Egodage, DP; Jayalath, HTS; Samarasekara, AMPB; Amarasinghe, DAS; Madushani, SPA; Senerath, SMNS [Conference-Abstract]
    Modern days, in food industry significant attention has paid to secure food quality, safety and shelf-life. Microbial growth is the major cause of food spoilage which reduces shelf life of food. Food packaging plays a ...
  • A Novel concept for remotely monitoring babies 
    Wipulasundara, SD [Conference-Abstract]
    A major challenge faced by parents today is child care. Identifying a threat at its earliest stage would be the best way to avoid any hazards caused by it. The baby under observation may not always be in the vicinity of ...
  • A Novel fixturing system for complex shaped components 
    Posindu, BA; Janaka, EB; Kasun, DT; Seekkuarachchi, PS; Kulasekera, AL; Jayaweera, ND [Conference-Abstract]
    Many components used in the aerospace industry are complex shaped components, without symmetric axes and parallel surfaces. During fabrication and repair, these components require fixing for processes such as drilling, ...
  • Occupancy identification based energy efficient illuminance controller with improved visual comfort in buildings 
    Basnayake, BADJCK; Amarasinghe, YWR; Attalage, RA; Jayasekara, AGBP [Conference-Abstract]
    Under this research Smart energy efficient and visual comfort lighting system has been developed based on the presence of occupancy and occupancy localization information. The developed system consist of non-contact occupancy ...
  • Open conductor fault detection 
    Jayamaha, DKJS; Madhushani, IHN; Gamage, RSSJ; Tennakoon, PPB; Lucas, JR; ayatunga, U [Conference-Abstract]
    Detection of open live conductors is a challenging task in the power system operation since it acts as a high impedance fault. High impendence faults (HIF) characteristically has a very low current value which is often not ...
  • Optimal terminal configuration for minimizing passengers’ waiting time 
    Saparamadu, S; Bandara, S [Conference-Abstract]
    Irrespective of the friction arrangement for a given terminal size, there will be a geometry that will be optimum with respect to passenger waiting. Quantitative methodology is used to select a suitable terminal configuration ...
  • Optimized cost enabled rural electrification system 
    Hemapala, KTMU; Dayarathne, MS; Swathika, OVG [Conference-Abstract]
    In most of the countries cost of rural electrification from grid extension is very high. This is mainly due to improper planning and lack of knowledge on low cost distribution technologies. Most of the African countries ...
  • Parameterized diamond tiling for parallelizing stencil computations 
    Wijesinghe, T; Senevirathne, K; Siriwardhana, C; Visitha, W; Jayasena, S; Rusira, T; Hall, M [Conference-Abstract]
    Abstract—Loop tiling is a useful technique used to achieve cache optimization in scientific computations. However, general loop tiling techniques usually fail to improve parallelism in certain scientific computations due ...
  • Particle modelling for convective drying of copra 
    Mendis, ARL; Amarasinghe, ADUS; Narayana, M [Conference-Abstract]
    A three-dimensional particle model to describe the moisture distribution in copra for 20 hours of drying was developed using computational fluid dynamics. Drying experiments were performed for seven different temperatures ...
  • Passenger perception on terminal building facilitation at Bandaranaike International Airport 
    Dayarathna, HCG; Perera, KPDF; Fernando, WWAS [Conference-Abstract]
    Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) is the main and the busiest airport in Sri Lanka. There are twenty-six airlines in the airport to get the airport and aviation services from the Airport and Aviation Services (Sri ...
  • Performance analysis of single cell solid oxide fuel cells 
    Ranasinghe, SN; Pussewalage, HSG; Middleton, PH [Conference-Abstract]
    Abstract—Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are a class of fuel cells operating on high temperatures which have the potential to become one of the efficient and cost effective system for direct conversion of a wide variety of ...
  • Prediction of creased geometry of thin folded membranes using finite element analysis 
    Mierunalan, S; Mallikarachchi, HMYC [Conference-Abstract]
    Experimental studies on thin membranes of micrometer scale require sophisticated instruments and gauging techniques. Hence characterization of such membranes is not widely done. Numerically accurate virtual simulations can ...
  • Quantitative evaluation of face detection and tracking algorithms for head pose estimation in mobile platforms 
    Welivita, A; Nimalsiri, N; Wickramasinghe, R; Pathirana, U; Gamage, C [Conference-Abstract]
    Face detection, face tracking and head pose estimation are commonly utilized in many computer vision applications related to face recognition, expression analysis, augmented reality and human computer interaction. Many ...
  • Question answering system for the travel domain 
    Kahaduwa, H; Pathirana, D; Liyana Arachchi, P; Dias, V; Ranathunga, S; Kohomban, U [Conference-Abstract]
    A Question Answering (QA) system backed by a comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge base would be appropriate for travellers to satisfy their information needs. In this paper, a complete QA system is presented. It has two ...
  • Rationalizing police patrol beats using heuristic-based clustering 
    Piyadasun, T; Kalansuriya, B; Gangananda, M; Malshan, M; Bandara, HMND; Marruy, S [Conference-Abstract]
    The division of police patrol districts affects patrol performance, such as average response time and workload variation. However, the possible sample space is large and the corresponding graph-partitioning problem is ...
  • Removal of lead from synthetic wastewater using chemically modified Jackfruit leaves 
    Premachandra, JK; Manoj, BS; Aberathne, SNPPGPE; Warnapura, LHP [Conference-Abstract]
    Heavy metal toxicity due to industrial waste water is a one of a threat to environment and living organisms. In this research, adsorption experiments were carried out using jackfruit leave powder as a bio-sorbent was ...
  • Semi-automated recommendation platform for data visualization: roopana 
    Kanchana, WAD; Madushanka, GDL; Maduranga, HP; Udayanga, MDM; Meedeniya, DA; Perera, I [Conference-Abstract]
    Information visualization is the final process of any data analytics project, which gives an overall insight about the identified trends, patterns and anomalies. Efforts in data analysis become useless when we fail to ...
  • Statistical modeling of weekly rainfall : a case study in Colombo City in Sri Lank 
    Silva, HPTN; Peiris, TSG [Conference-Abstract]
    The modeling of the weekly rainfall percentile is imperative for better understanding of rainfall patterns in any region. This study focuses on selecting the most appropriate probability distributions for weekly rainfall ...
  • Structural characteristics of complex supply chain networks 
    Perera, S; Perera, HN; Kasthurirathna, D
    There is a scarcity of analyses of topological properties of real world supply chain networks (SCNs), mainly due to lack of data. Most theoretical research has used the popular Barabasi-Albert (BA) growth model, in which ...
  • Study of the dielectric behavior of graphite Oxide Upon Exposure to Chlorine 
    Silva, SM; Kulathilake, PHD; Attygalle, D; Amarasinghe, DAS [Conference-Abstract]
    Graphite Oxide (GO) was synthesized using the Improved Hummer’s Method. After the successful synthesis of GO, it was characterized and its dielectric properties were investigated. The change of dielectric behavior of GO ...