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  • Geographical locating system 
    Nayanajith, HUD; Mahadewa, KT; Jayawardane, CHW; Perera, MDD; Premalal, LU; Withanage, DK [Conference-Abstract]
    Geographic location information is one significant element of information about the business that can be passed down to the customer. Over the last few years there have been significant advances in the use of technological ...
  • Human capital value and uniqueness, human resource management practices and human resource configurations: A study of software development firms 
    Wickramasinghe, V; Mahahettige, D [Conference-Abstract]
    This paper investigates whether human capital value and uniqueness embodied in employees make variations in human resource management practices and human resource configurations that used to manage them. In this study, ...
  • Identification and mapping land use changes in cinnamon cultivation in the part of Southern Province 
    Harshani, EVGI; Gunasena, CP; Rupasinghe, CP [Conference-Abstract]
    Cinnamon is a very important crop to Sri Lanka because of its nativity. Due to the highest demand for Sri Lankan true cinnamon, the highest export agricultural income can be earned from cinnamon than all the other crops. ...
  • Information and decision support system to enrich paddy cultivation in Sri Lanka 
    Ponweera, PADMD; Premaratne, SC [Conference-Abstract]
    Information Technology (IT) has connected the world together and now changing our life styles and social insights dynamically. In all stages of the agricultural industry, information technology plays a vital role in the ...
  • Information system for cultivation 
    Tharaka, KJ; Kulawansa, KADT [Conference-Abstract]
    Many of the agro-economies in the world are fast embracing information technology (IT) as an option to increase the efficiency of coordination among the key stakeholders such as the farmer, governments as well as the experts ...
  • Machine translation system for agriculture domain – issues and challenges 
    Hettige, B; Karunananda, AS [Conference-Full-text]
    Agriculture industry is the fast growing economic industry in Sri Lanka including rural-urban cities around the country. Language barrier is a critical issue in the agriculture industry, as a result of the large number of ...
  • Mapping of soil problematic paddy fields of Matara district 
    Buddhika, SAA; Navaratne, CM; Gunasena, CP [Conference-Abstract]
    An extensive field survey was conducted to map soil problematic paddy fields in Matara district. Information related to the study area was collected from the Divisional Secretariat (DS) office at Matara. Global Positioning ...
  • Novel perception in biotic stress controlling 
    Jayamini, UPK; Withanage, DK [Conference-Abstract]
    Pest controlling or biotic stress controlling has become a critical issue in modern agriculture since the existence of pests causes crop losses and waste in great numbers. Evolution of pest controlling has its roots in the ...
  • Proceedings of ITRU Research Symposium 2011 (Pre Text) 
    Unknown author [Conference-Abstract]
  • Using agent technology for Ontology alignment 
    Rajakaruna, GM; Karunananda, AS; Jayalal, S [Conference-Full-text]
    In the agricultural domain, different authorities have already developed their own ontologies and maintain them locally. However, for semantic tools to use these ontologies effectively on distributed environments, ontologies ...
  • Using software agents for weather forecasting from multiple perspectives 
    Srimal, MDW; Karunananda, AS [Conference-Full-text]
    Weather forecasting has become important for many sectors such as agriculture, fisheries and transportation. A reliable weather forecast report is of great importance for those sectors to plan their activities by mitigating ...
  • Word as an agent for multi-agent based machine translation 
    Hettig, B; Karunananda, AS [Conference-Full-text]
    Machine translation systems use various approaches including human-assisted, rule-based, example-based, statistical and multi-agent. The multi-agent approach is a modern approach to handle complexity of the systems in past ...