IRSPAS 2016: Recent submissions

  • A behavioural model to assess risk behaviour of young adults 
    Himasara, T.M.H.; Peter, S. (Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Risk behaviour of young adults have progressively escalated over the past few decades. It generally emerges during adolescence, resulting from a sense of invulnerability, combined with boldness. Therefore, young adults ...
  • Applicability of unsupervised learning algorithms for setting profiles for consumer buying behavior 
    Paranavithana, I.R.; Rupasinghe, T.D. (Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The Consumer Buying Behaviour consists of a summation of attitudes, preferences, intentions and, decisions taken by them. The process that customer buys a product or service varies for each individual and each category ...
  • E-marker: Moodle plugin tool to grade essay type questions 
    Jayakody, J.R.K.C. (Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Moodle is one of well-known Learning Management Systems (LMS) that helps academics to create varied assessment types such as Multiple Choice Question (MCQ), tutorials, short question and assignments etc. Typically, MCQ ...
  • Incident crowdsourcing, tracking and ranking application for environmental problems and issues in Sri Lanka using natural language processing 
    Lakshika, M.V.P.T.; Senanayake, S.H.D. (Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Sri Lanka is having numerous critical environmental problems and issues such as deforestation, pollution of water bodies, natural disasters and many other urban problems. Many of the communities who suffer from such ...
  • “Save me”: Alternative payment method for in-app purchases 
    Choxmi, S.; Peter, S. (Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The mobile smart phone has become the most sought after technology tool, among the younger generation of the world. Sri Lanka is no exception with mobile penetration at more than 100% with growth of smart phone usage ...
  • Predicting landslides in hill country of Sri Lanka using data mining techniques 
    Karunanayake, K.B.A.A.M.; Wijayanayake, W.M.J.I. (Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    A landslide is the movement of rock, debris or earth down a slope. They result from the failure of the materials which make up the hill slope and are driven by the force of gravity. When it refers to Sri Lankan context ...
  • An online news crawling framework for an aggregated news site 
    Wagawaththa, W.A.I.K.; Wijayanayake, W.M.J.I. (Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The internet has become one of the most widespread platforms for information exchange and retrieval as the number of news websites is increasing rapidly. During the last decade, most of the major newspapers have developed ...
  • Analysing mobility patterns of people to determine the best transportation method 
    Senanayake, J.M.D.; Wijayanayake, W.M.J.I. (Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    With the technological enhancements related to Internet, Wireless Communication, Big Data Analytics, Sensor-based Data, and Machine Learning; new paradigms are enabled for processing large amount of data which are collected ...
  • An analysis of software development process models and their applications in software industry 
    Wijesekara, G.L.A.; Wickramaarachchi, D.N. (Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The development of software takes into account a lot of different tasks until the software is released. The order in which these tasks are done is called the software development life cycle. When software development ...
  • An algorithm for plagiarism detection in Sinhala language 
    Basnayake, S.F.; Wijekoon, H.; Wijayasiriwardhane, T.K. (Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the simple definition of the verb plagiarize is, “to use the words or ideas of another person as if they were your own words or ideas”. Many software tools to aid in detecting ...
  • Natural language processing framework: WordNet based sentimental analyzer 
    Jayakody, J.R.K.C. (Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Sentimental analysis is a technique which is used to classify different types of documents as positive, negative or neutral. Hand written form, mails, telephone surveys or online feedback forms are used to get customer ...
  • Plagiarism detection educational tool: A student’s assessments similarity checker 
    Jayakody, J.R.K.C. (Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Plagiarism is very common among students in higher education institutes due to many reasons such as lack of knowledge about the subject, poor academic writing skills or difficulty in meeting a given deadline. The most ...
  • A zero configuration protocol stack for device-to-device communication in a private Wi-Fi network 
    Wickramarathne, I.Y.; Jayawardena, B.; Rajapakse, C. (Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Traditional wireless communication involves many Internet-based services, which makes the availability of an Internet connection mandatory to complete the communication. Furthermore, when introducing new devices into the ...
  • An approach to personalize learning using big data analytics for higher education 
    Jabir, A.; Rajapakse, C. (Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The concept of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) has gained popularity in studentcentered learning and higher education institutions make significant investments on improving the wireless network to enhance this. Virtual ...
  • Design and construction of low cost petri dish incubator 
    Wanigasekara, G.; Perera, N.W.; Abeysinghe, D.; Geegamage, S.S.; Wijekoon, D.; Jayathilaka, N. (Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Petri dish incubators are used in laboratories to keep petri dish samples at a stable and optimal temperature of 37 °C. Incubators are one of the frequently needed equipment. These incubators are expensive due to the use ...
  • Development of a mobile optical microscope at low cost 
    Chamikara, H.J.M.P. (Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Optical microscope is an instrument, which uses visible light to magnify small objects that are not visible to our naked eyes. A typical light microscope used in our laboratories, can be very expensive and difficult to ...
  • Use of a water-boost rocket for the exposure plate method 
    Chamikara, H.J.M.P. (Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The atmosphere of the earth is divided in to layers as troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere. Each of these layers contain different types of airborne microorganisms owing to their physical and chemical ...
  • Investigation of a solid state redox capacitor based on polypyrrole electrodes 
    Weerasinghe, W.A.D.S.S.; Bandaranayake, C.M.; Vidanapathirana, K.P.; Perera, K.S. (Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Conducting polymers (CPs) have received a great attention as a class of potential candidates for diverse applications including batteries, electro chromic devices and redox capacitors. They surpass the carbon based ...
  • Synthesis and characterization of some novel iron complexes with an asymmetric N-alkyl,N’-aryl-β-diketamine ligand 
    Weerawardhana, E.A.; Stanek, C.M.; Zelle, M.; Lee, Wei-Tsung (Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    An asymmetric N-alkyl,N′-aryl-β-diketiminate ligand L (L = 2-((S)-(-)-1- phenylethylimino)-4- (2,6-diisopropylphenylimido)pentane) was prepared. Synthesis of chloro-bridged dimer [LFe(μ-Cl)]2 is presented here. Upon ...
  • Investigating convergence of subseries of harmonic series with respect to corresponding gap sequences 
    Bandara, P.H.A.; Mampitiya, M.A.U. (Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

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