IJRC https://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/6612 2026-04-08T13:46:31Z 2026-04-08T13:46:31Z Bandara, MMNH Udayangi, TGI https://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/6637 2025-09-25T10:03:40Z 2023-07-01T00:00:00Z

Bin- Eazy: The Tracking-Based Solid Waste Collection System Bandara, MMNH; Udayangi, TGI The majority of developing countries, including Sri Lanka, are still struggling to manage solid waste, resulting in a slew of social, environmental, and health issues. In Sri Lanka, as in the majority of other nations, the responsibility for waste management is delegated to Local Authorities (LAs). With rising solid waste quantities, Sri Lanka is now struggling to manage trash. This research, aims to develop an automated solid waste management collection mobile application named as “Bin-Eazy” and a web application to address the above situation in Sri Lanka. These applications facilitate both the municipal council and the citizens to avoid the problems that arise during waste collection. The methodology for the improvement of the waste collection and transportation system was devised based on Google Map API. This system includes a mobile application to organize garbage in various locations. We can communicate directly with the municipal council and provide information on the location of the garbage bins or dump with this mobile application. Python, Image Processing, Flutter, SQLite, and React are technologies that were used in this project. Image processing is the technical analysis of images using complex algorithms. The municipality uses image processing to check whether the citizens have correctly classified the garbage. This system mainly focuses on household solid waste. In a country like Sri Lanka, both residents and municipal councils may save time and money by using this mobile application to collect solid waste. Those are the expected primary goal of this paper.

2023-07-01T00:00:00Z Akilani, MP Wanniarachchi, WAAM https://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/6636 2025-09-25T10:06:45Z 2023-07-01T00:00:00Z

Social Media Platform for the Travel and Tourism Industry in Sri Lanka Akilani, MP; Wanniarachchi, WAAM As the industrial society of the twentieth century gives way to the information society of the twenty-first century, the modern world is undergoing a major transition. This dynamic process has the potential to fundamentally alter all parts of our life, including knowledge distribution, social interaction, business practices, political activity, media, education, health, leisure, and entertainment. Travel industry software applications play a significant role in tourism and travel industry by contributing to a large volume of transactions and revenue. Many studies have evaluated tourism websites through different research methods. Website usability, in general, has improved dramatically but problems are still remaining. Very few studies focus on the use of software applications and features of need to develop in the Sri Lankan context. This research uses a mixed-methods approach. The survey results show that tourism and travel industry software applications search is regularly utilitarian in nature; the complex interface and not having one platform including more features either obscure or were ignored by most tourists while decreasing the satisfaction of that travel industry software applications. This research paper discusses the existing systems and their software applications, additional features, and satisfaction rates of these software applications, and suggest modern software application for that industry in Sri Lanka.

2023-07-01T00:00:00Z Kithulwatta, WMCJT Jayasena, KPN Kumara, BTGS Rathnayaka, RMKT https://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/6635 2025-09-25T10:07:36Z 2023-07-01T00:00:00Z

Performance Analysis of Docker-based Database Management Systems Compared to Virtual Machine-based Systems: A Comparative Study Kithulwatta, WMCJT; Jayasena, KPN; Kumara, BTGS; Rathnayaka, RMKT Computer virtualization is a very old technology. Due to a lot of technical barriers, computer containerization has been introduced recently. Nowadays, computer containerization is playing a major role in information technology and containerization is a trending topic. Among the practitioner of information technology, a lot of software services are moving to containerization instead of traditional virtual machines. Among the most famous software services: database management systems are a leading service. Among most computer containerization technologies, Docker is the most popular and trending container vendor. Therefore, identification of the performance of database management systems on the Docker-based platform is an essential task for the practitioner. This research study aims to identify the practical aspects of each database management system on the Docker-based infrastructure for main database management system operations. For the study: Ubuntu 18.04 Long Term Support (used package with architecture: GNU/Linux 4.15.0-112-generic x86_64) cloud-based operating system was used and on that operating system the Docker infrastructure was launched. Docker version 19.03.9 was launched for the study. On Docker: MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB database management system containers were launched separately. SELECT, DELETE, UPDATE, and INSERT operations were used for the performance evaluations of database management system response times. This research identified that there was an increase in the performance of the Docker platform with a 95% confidence interval level for all data records to virtual machine-based platforms. Finally, the research study identified that Docker-based database management system has a quick response time than virtual machine-based database management systems.

2023-07-01T00:00:00Z Gamage, TA Ranasinghe, DDM. https://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/6634 2025-09-25T10:08:23Z 2023-07-01T00:00:00Z

Optimizing Smart Agriculture by Integrating Artificial Cognition: A Review, Current Challenges and Future Trends Gamage, TA; Ranasinghe, DDM. Agriculture is one of the most influential sectors for human existence given the fact that all human beings depend on food for survival. Hence there is continuous research for efficiency and effectiveness improvements in agricultural activities to yield a quality harvest with increased volumes. Rapid advancements in technologies have paved the way for smart agriculture to improve the agricultural process. Thus, many smart artifacts have been introduced to the agriculture field including autonomous robots. As a result, the agricultural aspects such as soil management, seeding, harvesting and plant disease management have been focused highly with the aim of upheaving each of these agricultural sectors. Since none of these systems are integrated with cognitive capabilities, they cannot operate in an optimal manner by taking rational decisions as humans on contemporary issues related to agriculture. Hence, these systems are less efficient and adaptive and become vulnerable in difficult conditions. Therefore, integration of cognition is vital to agricultural artifacts including robots and is a research challenge. A critical literature review has been carried out in this research to identify the existing limitations and challenges in smart agriculture and it was extensively discussed how cognition can be integrated in this regard. A hybrid cognitive architecture has been identified as a mechanism for integrating cognition into agricultural artifacts. Finally, the paper discusses several possible real-world applications with few case studies and provides insights for integrating cognition into agricultural artifacts.

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