INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE ARTICLES (KDU IRC): Recent submissions
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On an Algorithm to Prove the Strong Goldbach Conjecture
(2015)The strong Goldbach conjecture says that any even number greater than the integer can be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers which has been numerically justified up to such large numbers that of order 4 . We assume ... -
Modelling of Energy Utilization of Tourism Industry to have an Insight of the Existing Electricity Generation Plan of Sri Lanka
(2015)Tourism industry in Sri Lanka shares a substantial amount of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and predicts an immense expansion within a short time frame. Owing to its energy intensiveness and competitiveness, a scrutiny in ... -
p-CuSCN (band gap=3.1eV) Sensitized Cu2O Quantum Dots (QDs) Photoelectrochemical Cell
(2015)This work focuses on making photoelectrochemical cell for the first time by sensitizing p-CuSCN with Cu2O quantum dots (QDs). Copper (I) thiocyanate (CuSCN) is wide band gap material which is sensitive only to UV light. ... -
Landscape as a Tool in Achieving “Adaptive Comfort”, a Study on Multi-Storied Residential Buildings in Tropics
(2015)Maintaining indoor thermal and visual comfort has become the basic means of energy consuming modes in residential buildings in tropical climates. The amount of energy consumption in domestic building activities per year ... -
Developing Software Which Automatically Plot Various Types of Profiles Using Road Survey Data
(2015)There is a lack of locally oriented software that generates profiles in a specific format which local organisations required, so professionals like Engineers, Surveyors face various kind of troubles. As a solution this ... -
Efficient 3D City Modelling from Airborne Laser Scanning point clouds
(2015)Geometrically and topologically correct 3D building models are required to satisfy the increasing demand in, for instance virtual reality, emergency response, robot navigation, and urban planning. Airborne Laser Scanning ... -
Inculcating Professionalism in to the University Degrees: Experience of the Faculty of Geomatics, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka
(2015)The Faculty of Geomatics, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka is reputed for its BSc degree in Surveying Sciences since its inception in 1997 in its effort to produce professional surveyors. Due to the technological ... -
Understanding the Nexus between Traditional Security and Human Security through Indo-Bangla Relations
(21/08/2014)Security is of profound importance to state and humans alike. The concept of security can be defined as absence of threat. Security was seen primarily in terms of state security and national power, the state as the single ... -
A World Government: Will it Ever Happen?
(21/08/2014)From earliest days of formation to Homo sapiens this species had been known to have resorted to violent conflict between individuals, groups, tribes and later between states. The last phase had caused the highest volume ... -
Under Frequency Load Shedding Based on Dynamic System Information
(2015)Under Frequency Load shedding is an effective mechanism to prevent a disturbance – induced collapse of a power system. Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) also uses such a system with the support of under frequency load shedding ... -
Revisiting the 'Conflict Trap': Assessing the Potential Resurgence of an Armed Struggle in Sri Lanka
(21/08/2014)Five years on since the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Sri Lanka is in transition. Having experienced a protracted war for nearly three decades, the country has shifted to a post-conflict ... -
Analysis of the Sales Checkout Operation in Supermarket Using Queuing Theory
(2015)This paper contains the analysis of Queuing systems for the empirical data of supermarket checkout service unit using queuing theory. One of the expected gains from studying queuing systems is to review the efficiency of ... -
Railway Warning and Control Systems
(2015)This paper presents overall system description of the implemented system on the sensor network based railway warning and control system. With the main objective of providing the protection to the public at the unmanned ... -
Performance of an all polymer supercapacitor
(2015)Demand for power sources is getting increased day by day due to high usage of electronic equipment. Most widely used power sources are the batteries. However, when energy storage is considered, capacitors are in the ... -
Complex Valued Independent Component Analysis for Image Enhancement
(2015)Independent Component Analysis (ICA), a category of blind source separation, can be effectively used for extraction of unknown independent source signals from signal mixtures in a wide range of signal processing applications. ... -
An Analysis of Speed Drop in ADSL Lines in Sri Lanka
(2015)This paper investigates the possible reasons for the very common problem faced by internet users at present: speed drop in ADSL lines in Sri Lanka. ADSL is a variant of DSL in which unused bandwidth of existing copper cable ...