Abnormal activity detection plays an important role in many areas such as surveillance, military installations, and sports. Existing abnormal activity detectors mostly rely on motion data obtained over a number of frames ...

Action recognition in a video plays an important role in computer vision and finds many applications in areas such as surveillance, sports, and elderly monitoring. Existing methods mostly rely on stationary backgrounds. ...

Agent technology is one of the Artificial Intelligence techniques best suited to address a social or biological phenomenon which involves group dynamics. Moreover, computer simulations are used extensively for ...

All over the world, the shift in approaches to learning is towards collaborative learning methods by considering facts such as how students are learning and the best method for students to gain knowledge for their long-term ...

This study is based on the Earned Value Management (EVM) performance measurement technique and its practice in Sri Lankan construction industry. Since the project success clearly depend on accuracy on evaluated performance ...

Architecture of fortification; iron bars and iron spikes, cinder blocks and barking dogs, razor ribbon wires, glass spines and security alarms- The city has been armed with apparent evidences all over the city. The ...

In this paper we present AugLAC, a framework which integrates common features of location aware services, ecommerce and augmented reality into a single infrastructure for the development of location aware mobile ...

Because of their bespoke nature, construction projects are susceptible to variations irrespective of type, size and complexity. The effects of these variations are significant and may include cost and time overrun, ...

Urban areas are now being regenerated in great extremes to match with the local and global demand in Sri Lanka. Upgrading infrastructures, land and buildings are highly pressurized in urban regeneration projects given ...

The majority of municipal solid waste (MSW) generated in Sri Lanka is disposed in open dump yards. Compaction of wastes at such open dumps is the main factor that controls short-term density and resulting placement efficiency ...