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  • Daily and monthly lumped parameter hydrologic models for analysis of small watersheds in Sri Lanka 
    Perera, GMCA; Rajapakse, RLHL [Conference-Full-text]
    Water resource management has become vital with the increase of demand for fresh water and modelling of ungauged basins under the conditions of data scarcity has always been a challenge. The two-parameter (2-P) and ...
  • Damage assessment matrix for low-rise masonry houses 
    Wickramathilake, GGTD; Jayasinghe, C [Conference-Abstract]
    Low-rise buildings are susceptible to damage from factors like poor design or construction quality, inadequate supervision, improper drainage, problems due to the soil condition, and adverse climatic conditions. In certain ...
  • Damage mechanism of Hikkaduwa due to December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami 
    Welhena, T; Samarawickrama, SP; Hettiarachchi, SSL [Conference-Extended-Abstract]
    More than two thirds of the Sri Lankan coastline got affected from the December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. Field surveys conducted clearly indicate that some of the cities in the western coast of Sri Lanka in the shadow ...
  • Dangers of component trapping in distillation: an industrial methanol distillation case study 
    Udugama, IA; Mansouri, SS; Kirkpatrick, R; Young, B; Taube, MA [Conference-Full-text]
    The formation of organic acids due to secondary reactions is an issue in industrial methanol synthesis. As such, to avoid the formation of acidic regions in the units downstream of the methanol synthesis loop, caustic ...
  • A data acquisition methodology for the development of local driving cycles 
    Gajanayake, S; Bandara, S; Sugathapala, T [Conference-Abstract]
    Driving Cycles (DCs), the time speed profiles of a certain vehicle type for a given road segment can be considered as one of the main tools to quantify and to assess the performance in terms of fuel economy and emissions ...
  • A data driven approach for detection and correction of spelling errors in sinhala essays 
    Samarasinghe, PM; Sewwandi, WBI; Ranathunga, L; Wijetunge, WASN [Conference-Full-text]
    This paper proposes novel approaches for checking and correcting spelling errors in Sinhala essays written by candidates of grade five scholarship examination. They don't have a proper mechanism to identify their spelling ...
  • A data driven binning method to recover more nucleotide sequences of species in a metagenome 
    Vimukthi, K; Wimalasiri, G; Bandara, P; Herath, D [Conference-Full-text]
    Metagenomics accelerated the process of studying different species and their dynamics in multiple environments. A key step in a metagenomic study is to group nucleotide sequences belonging to an individual or closely ...
  • Data mining approach for analyzing factors influencing vegetable prices 
    Illankoon, IMGL; Kumara, BTGS [Conference-Full-text]
    Vegetables have a special place in the Sri Lankan economy. The price of vegetables, unlike the prices of other products, changes daily. There are several reasons for this and the examples include environmental conditions, ...
  • Data science applications for carbon footprint management in buildings: a systematic literature review 
    Sandaruwan, IPT; Janardana, JAB; Waidyasekara, KGAS [Conference-Full-text]
    Buildings have a significant impact on climate change. The building industry is the world’s biggest energy consumer and the building's operation accounts for 80–90% of its total energy consumption over its lifetime. ...
  • Data security implementations in cloud computing: a critical review 
    Firdhous, MFM; Hussien, NA [Conference-Full-text]
    Cloud Computing has captured the market as the most promising computing paradigm, where users are allowed to use computing resources in a flexible and cost effective manner. Data storage is one of the services provided ...
  • Daylight variability and human perception 
    Pathirage, LY; Perera, NGR [Conference-Full-text]
    Visual perception of a space is influenced by the composition and behaviour of light. Daylight as a natural element, creates different atmospheres in the same space by its variation of intensity, colour, and direction. It ...
  • A dc link for the power system simulator 
    Abeyrathne, PM; Abeysinghe, AMGT; Karunanayake, IM; Ranasinghe, PMH; Dias, MP; Lucas, JR [Conference-Full-text]
    High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) links are used for bulk power transmission due to its advantages over the alternating current (ac) transmission. A HVDC link between India and Sri Lanka has also being proposed. Hence it ...
  • DC microgrid as a solution for utilisation of solar photovoltaic sources 
    Bandara, AIMH; Binduhewa, P; Ekanayake, J [Conference-Full-text]
    MicroGrid (MG) is a convenient solution to integrate renewable energy sources to the existing power network. Though ac MicroGrids are widely studied, researches are focused towards the implementation of dc MicroGrids ...
  • Debas – a sinhala interactive voice response system 
    Nallathamby, JD; Kariyawasam, KKR; Pullaperuma, HD; Vithana, DC; Jayasena, S [Conference-Full-text]
    Although there are widely used Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems in many languages today, there is no Sinhala language IVR system yet. This paper talks about an approach taken in developing a complete Sinhala IVR ...
  • deBas: a sinhala Interactive voice response (IVR) system 
    Nallathamby, JD; Kariyawasam, KKR; Pullaperuma, HD; Vithana, DC; Jayasena, S [Conference-Full-text]
    Although there are widely used Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems in many languages today, there is no Sinhala language IVR system yet. This paper talks about deBas IVR: a complete Sinhala IVR with automatic speech ...
  • Decade of action for road safety: trends in road accidents, Sri Lanka 
    Ranawaka, RKTK; Pasindu, HR [Conference-Abstract]
    At present, nearly eight people die due to road accidents each day in Sri Lanka. This amounts to over 3000 fatalities per annum. This is an increase of 35.2% when compared to the fatalities in the year 2008. During the ...
  • Deciding on the consultancy fee for re-measurement contracts in the Sri Lankan construction industry 
    Madushani, SDA; Seneviratne, LDIP; Ganeshu, P [Conference-Full-text]
    Construction industry is the necessary national backbone in developing countries. Consultants are the stakeholders who supplies objective and independent external service to the client. Consulting is gradually becoming ...
  • Decision making framework for transportation infrastructure selection 
    Attanayake, U; Mohammed, AW; Hu, Y; Abudayyeh, O; Aktan, HM [Conference-Abstract]
    The world transportation system matures day-by-day wherein the congestion growth rate is alarming while its infrastructure growth has slowed down, which affects the quality of life. Developing highway infrastructure by ...
  • Decision making on adaptive reuse of historic buildings in Sri Lanka 
    Samaranayake, RADIU; Jayawickrama, TS; Melagoda, DG; Rathnayake, RMDIM [Conference-Full-text]
    The construction industry is consistently involved with improving the economic, social and environmental parameters of sustainability. This has led the sustainability in construction to shift from an original focus on ...
  • A decision support model to manage demand disruptions of fast-moving consumer goods during a pandemic in Sri Lanka 
    Pathirawasam, D; Hewage, U [Conference-Full-text]
    Decision support models play a crucial role within an organization’s demand planning process when emerging pandemics cause disturbances in demand. The increasing trend of pandemics and the long-lasting struggle it create ...