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The following topics are dealt with: sensors, wireless sensor networks; information acquisition and processing, RFID; sensor based robotics and control; and bioinformatics.
The physical expansion of enterprises with the current trends in globalization has had a positive influence on the technologies of distributed systems. At the forefront of this technological revolution are distributed database systems. For a distributed database to be at optimal performance and thus provide an efficient service it needs to be designed appropriately. The significance of the perfect...
Sound risk management is of crucial importance in software projects. As an emerging industry in Sri Lanka, software companies should focus on the proper risk management techniques. Unfortunately a large number of companies fail to achieve their project objectives. To avoid such situations, it is important for organizations to identify the main risks and take appropriate risk response actions. In this...
This paper presents a novel computer model for diagnosis of Prakurthi in Ayurvedic medicine. The present mechanisms used for diagnosis of Prakurthi, which is considered, as classification of human constitutions is inconsistent about its findings. Therefore a research has been conducted to reduce such inconsistencies using a computer model. In this issue multi techniques integrated computer model has...
Process automation concentrates on automating structured processes of an organization in order to achieve excellent service delivery by enabling the employees to pay more attention to semi structured or unstructured processes. Achieving service delivery excellence adds value to an organization, increases the customer retention and provides opportunity for strategic growth. The growth of the Sri Lankan...
Morphological analysis plays a key role in effective functioning of a parser of any machine translation system. Further, morphological analyzers are useful as supportive software tools to coin terms for a given language. This paper reports on the first morphological analysis system for Sinhala language. This comes out as a major step in the development of a Sinhala parser for machine translation from...
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a game plan for planning and monitoring all of the resources of a business organization. It has been recognized as an effective management system leading to excellent planning and scheduling capability and significant improvements in productivity. It also provides dramatic increases in customer service, and improved resource performance such as much higher inventory...
Development and feasibility study of self-adaptive intelligent controllers for applications in power electronic converters is important as power quality is a serious issue in the developing countries in particular. Fuzzy controllers have been successfully developed and used in various applications. However, in the real-time applications, uncertainty associated with the available information always...
This paper presents a practical application of autonomous robots - a robot that has the ability to locate a fire in a structured environment and extinguish it. The robot has built around the hybrid paradigm, where both the reactive and deliberative controllers are used. The robot's ecological niche is on top of an electrically wired grid of arena. The robot gets the fire alerts through this structured...
This paper provides an overview of a general energy conservation measures (ECMs) that can be commonly recommended for an industrial facility. It should be noted that the ECMs presented in this paper does not pretend to be exhaustive nor comprehensive. It provides merely to indicate some of the options that energy auditor can consider when performing an analysis of an industry. There is a continued...
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