Recent advancements in artificial intelligence have enabled reinforcement learning (RL) agents to exceed human-level performance in various gaming tasks. However, despite the state-of-the-art performance demonstrated by ...

Air quality in dense urban environments is a growing concern, especially in rapidly developing cities. In the face of growing traffic associated with urbanization, there is evidence for high levels of pollutant concentration ...

Purpose – Like in many other countries, in Sri Lanka, minimal attention is paid to the performance of a building after it has been taken over by its end-user. Hence, a gap often exists between the actual performance of ...

With the rising impact of greenhouse gas emissions, resource depletion, and the global interest in sustainability advancements within all sectors, construction industry practitioners are also interested in incorporating ...

Sri Lanka is the world’s fourth-largest tea producer and prime orthodox variety supplier. In Sri Lanka, tea export earnings peaked in 2014 at USD 1.56 billion, and the industry managed to record USD 1.3 billion in ...

Conservation of ecosystems such as Bolgoda is crucial in achieving sustainable development goal 11 – Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. To conserve such valuable ecosystems, the importance of ...

Building prediction models with the right balance between performance and interpretability is currently a great challenge in machine learning. A large number of recent studies have focused on either building intrinsically ...

Textile wastewater accommodates many toxic organic contaminants that could potentially threaten the ecosystem if left untreated. Methylene blue is a toxic, non-biodegradable, cationic dye that is reportedly observed in ...

A postage stamp symbolises a nation’s value, consisting of physical and symbolic dimensions. Physically, it encompasses the paper, design, inscriptions, ink, gum, perforation etc. Designing such a small yet democratic ...

The world heritage city Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, significant for spiritually cherished spatial orientation manifests in the city; reflecting ‘spiritual sustainability’, that integrates nature, natural elements, topography, ...