item: #1 of 55 id: icter-108 author: Julsrud, Tom Erik title: Mobile phones and the development of social capital among small Malaysian retailers date: 2012-04-19 words: 11462 flesch: 56 summary: Index Terms — Retailers, Malaysia, SMEs, Mobile communication, Social networks. The structure of the paper is as follows: In Section II,we will outline the role of small retailers in Malaysia and explain why it is interesting to study social networks related to these companies. keywords: business; calls; capital; cases; communication; employees; enterprises; family; mobile; networks; phone; relations; resources; retailers; sms; social; ties; use; vol cache: icter-108.pdf plain text: icter-108.txt item: #2 of 55 id: icter-114 author: Hol, Ana; Ginige, Athula title: A Case Study Approach: eT Guide - Assisting The eTransformation Journey date: 2012-04-19 words: 8729 flesch: 48 summary: This paper identifies how an online system - eTranformation Guide (eT Guide) allows companies especially Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to track, measure and guide their eTransformation journey. Throughout the research that has been conducted up to now we observe the process of change through which companies make modifications to their business processes, operations and structures so that they can implement appropriate technologies. keywords: business; company; data; e s; etransformation; guide; processes; s s; stage; systems; tasks cache: icter-114.pdf plain text: icter-114.txt item: #3 of 55 id: icter-121 author: Firdhous, Mohamed; Ghazali, Osman; Hassan, Suhaidi title: Trust Management in Cloud Computing – A Critical Review date: 2011-10-13 words: 9976 flesch: 55 summary: Trust models proposed for various distributed system has then been summarized. Manuel et al., have proposed trust model that is integrated with CARE resource broker [53]. keywords: authors; cloud; cloud computing; computing; conference; data; information; international; level; management; model; network; peer; providers; reputation; security; service; software; systems; trust; trust management; trust model; value cache: icter-121.pdf plain text: icter-121.txt item: #4 of 55 id: icter-125 author: TSAO, Hsiao-Shen Jacob; Venkatsubramanyan, Shailaja; Parikh, Shrikant; Sarkar, Prasenjit title: ICT Leap-frogging Enabled by Cloud Computing for Emerging Economies: A Case on Streamlining India’s Grain Supply Chains date: 2011-10-13 words: 13854 flesch: 46 summary: We capitalized on this opportunity and proposed a solution based on cloud computing and other operational concepts for streamlining grain supply chains in India. We have had an entirely different motivation – to streamline and improve India‟s grain supply chain and, in the process, discovered that cloud computing is a promising technology for solving a key part of the problem [4]. keywords: access; chains; cloud; cloud computing; computing; cost; frogging; grain; grain supply; ict; india; information; internet; leap; nations; price; retailers; service; software; supply; supply chains; use; web; wholesalers cache: icter-125.pdf plain text: icter-125.txt item: #5 of 55 id: icter-126 author: Kathiravelu, Thabotharan title: Towards Designing a Routing Protocol for Opportunistic Networks date: 2012-04-19 words: 5160 flesch: 49 summary: We then use simulation based experimental studies to model node connectivity and traffic generation and then collect experimental results. Traditional MANET routing protocols try to find an end to end path to route packets form source node to destination node and use proactive and reactive routing techniques to establish paths before forwarding packets towards their destinations. keywords: connectedness; connectivity; contact; forwarding; information; messages; node; predictability; protocol; routing cache: icter-126.pdf plain text: icter-126.txt item: #6 of 55 id: icter-128 author: Sabahi, Farzad title: Cloud Computing RAS issues and challenges date: 2011-10-13 words: 10056 flesch: 46 summary: B. PaaS PaaS (Platform as a Service): In this category of service, cloud users are given a platform [4]. Although the use of encryption algorithms could be a good solution for the user or cloud provider by making the appropriate arrangements, such as using advanced algorithms to wipe the user's data for avoidance from information leaks. keywords: access; cloud; computing; control; data; hypervisor; intrusion; issues; machine; management; network; provider; security; service; users; virtualization cache: icter-128.pdf plain text: icter-128.txt item: #7 of 55 id: icter-144 author: Usoof, Hakim Ali; Hudson, Brian; Wikramanayake, Gihan Nilendra title: Technology Enhanced Assessment for Learning in a Distance Education IT Degree Programme in Sri Lanka date: 2013-03-04 words: 6698 flesch: 51 summary: This pattern can only be attributed to the careful design considerations of the eBIT phase aimed at improving support for student learning. BIT students previously had very few opportunities to have their issues and questions addressed and the introduction of an e-Facilitator for each course has helped address this issue in the eBIT phase. keywords: assessment; bit; community; degree; education; learning; online; phase; programme; students; study; year cache: icter-144.pdf plain text: icter-144.txt item: #8 of 55 id: icter-147 author: Weerasinghe, Thushani Alwis; Hewagamage, Kamalanath Priyantha; Ramberg, Robert title: Re-evaluation of community of inquiry model with its metacognitive presence construct date: 2013-03-04 words: 11096 flesch: 51 summary: Among the instruments used for online discussion content analysis, the model based on the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework is extensively used (e.g. [11] and [12]) in the field of online learning, and it has been continually refined and adapted by researchers D. Typical issues and guidelines Methodological issues in online discussion content analysis have frequently been discussed in the literature (e.g. [32], [10] and [14]). keywords: analysis; category; coders; coding; coi; content; discussion; framework; inquiry; learning; model; online; presence; scheme; social; students; teaching cache: icter-147.pdf plain text: icter-147.txt item: #9 of 55 id: icter-158 author: CJ Kumarage title:  date: 2013-02-01 words: 6218 flesch: 58 summary: The above studies indicate that various types of ANN models yield reasonable results in forecasting applications and they outperform statistical models. Varying the network architecture – The ensemble is created by networks with different network architecture. keywords: ann; bpn; data; ensemble; forecasting; grnn; layer; network; neural; performance; rainfall; rbfn cache: icter-158.doc plain text: icter-158.txt item: #10 of 55 id: icter-159 author: Perera, Nadira Tharanga; Wijerathne, Induni Shamika; Wijesooriya, Manori Madubhashini; Dharmarathne, Anuja; Weerasinghe, Ruwan title: A game based learning approach to enrich the special education in Sri Lanka date: 2014-08-05 words: 11087 flesch: 57 summary: Mainly the majority of special students are educated at normal schools. F. Clear and Unambiguous Text The characteristics of text which is used for the games and activities of special students should be different from the characteristics of text used in games for ordinary students. keywords: colour; education; fig; games; ict; language; learning; level; mistakes; needs; number; post; pre; special; students; test; time cache: icter-159.pdf plain text: icter-159.txt item: #11 of 55 id: icter-162 author: Htay Hlaing, Tin; MIKAMI, Yoshiki title: Automatic Syllable Segmentation of Myanmar Texts using Finite State Transducer date: 2014-01-03 words: 6153 flesch: 50 summary: From the view of phonology, Myanmar syllable has the phonemic shape of C(M)V(CK)D | V(CK)D where C refers an initial consonant, M for medial consonant, V for attached vowels, CK stands for a final consonant ( a combination of consonant C and vowel killer K), and D for the tones respectively. Firstly, based on the regular grammar as mentioned above, we write the regular expression to recognize Myanmar syllables and then construct the orthographic automata for a Myanmar syllable Amm as Amm = C Opt(M) Opt(V) Opt(CK) Opt(D) | P | I | N where Opt is the just acronym for “optional”. keywords: approach; consonant; finite; language; myanmar; script; state; syllabification; syllable; transducer; vowel; words cache: icter-162.pdf plain text: icter-162.txt item: #12 of 55 id: icter-164 author: Hansson, Henrik; Moberg, Janne; Peiris, Colombage Ranil title: SciPro Matching: ICT Support to Start a Quality Thesis date: 2015-03-16 words: 6703 flesch: 55 summary: Supervisors do not think they have time to choose student ideas 3) Auto match Fast, impersonal, can be done by administrative staff with no special skills Hard to find good matching criteria, Students often choose wrong research area and/or keyword 4) Adminis trator assigns Handles all kinds of problems like too few supervisors in a research area and special prerequisites. Since not all supervisors were on duty every semester and they had different targets (the number of theses a supervisor could supervise in an application period), the policy was changed to ‘at least the same amount of supervisor ideas as the supervisor has targets in the current application period’ (see Figure 4). keywords: figure; ideas; matching; number; process; project; research; students; supervision; supervisors; support; system; thesis; time cache: icter-164.pdf plain text: icter-164.txt item: #13 of 55 id: icter-174 author: Kivunike, Florence Nameere title: Towards an ICT4D Evaluation model based on the Capability Approach date: 2014-04-08 words: 10742 flesch: 39 summary: CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS Drawing on theoretical and conceptual foundations is essential to realizing sound evaluation approaches to support ICT evaluations [1, 8]. Over the years interest in the domains along the value chain has shifted from readiness, availability and uptake towards development impact [1, 24]. keywords: access; approach; capability; contribution; development; e.g.; evaluation; factors; ict; ict4d; impact; information; learning; muele; opportunities; outcomes; outputs; use; value cache: icter-174.pdf plain text: icter-174.txt item: #14 of 55 id: icter-181 author: Ranasinghe, Anuradha title: Reconfigurable Wireless Sensor Node with Improved Autonomous Linearization date: 2014-08-05 words: 5592 flesch: 48 summary: A. Mixed Signal Circuit Design The UTIM is based on an analog multiplexer network which facilitates the required functionality to perform signal routing between sensor signals and amplifier stages. j = 1; j = 2; j = 3; The obtained rational function by the SRI algorithm and conventional Steinhart model for 3.3 k thermistor were compared with sensor data to evaluate the performance of the proposed method. keywords: algorithm; calibration; data; design; error; fig; function; linearization; method; node; non; points; power; reconfigurable; sensor; signal; system cache: icter-181.pdf plain text: icter-181.txt item: #15 of 55 id: icter-209 author: Peiris, Dineshi; Weerasinghe, Ruvan title: Improving Citation Network Scoring by Incorporating Author and Program Committee Reputation date: 2016-07-11 words: 8579 flesch: 56 summary: Most existing methods use citation count as the metric to measure the reputation of publication venues. Today, researchers tend to submit their findings to a wide variety of publication venues such as conferences, journals, and seminars. keywords: author; citation; conference; data; journal; method; pagerank; publication; publication venues; quality; ranking; research; score; venue; year cache: icter-209.pdf plain text: icter-209.txt item: #16 of 55 id: icter-212 author: Cooray, Thilini Thushari; Wikramanayake, Gihan title: Path Index Based Keywords to SPARQL Query Transformation for Semantic Data Federations date: 2016-07-11 words: 10330 flesch: 63 summary: It showed a significant performance gain over existing query generation approaches. We propose an approach for transforming keyword queries to SPARQL on RDF data source federations within a set of defined limitations. keywords: approach; data; elements; federation; graph; index; keyword; path; queries; query; rdf; results; source; sparql; time; user; web cache: icter-212.pdf plain text: icter-212.txt item: #17 of 55 id: icter-214 author: Walisadeera, Anusha Indika; Ginige, Athula; Wikramanayake, Gihan Nilendra title: Developing a Community-Based Knowledge System: A Case Study using Sri Lankan Agriculture date: 2016-01-18 words: 7287 flesch: 44 summary: There are processes to capture user information needs and related user context from the users to represent domain information in context. In a similar way, we identified the criteria for each item in the list of user information requirements. keywords: agriculture; application; context; control; crop; domain; farmers; fig; information; knowledge; needs; ontology; system; user cache: icter-214.pdf plain text: icter-214.txt item: #18 of 55 id: icter-279 author: Karunarathna, Gothami; Jayaratne, Lakshman; Gunawardana, Kasun title: Classification of Voice Content in the Context of Public Radio Broadcasting date: 2020-01-25 words: 8794 flesch: 58 summary: All constructs N number of binary SVM models where it has N number of classes. One constructs N(N-1)/2 number of binary SVM models where each one is trained only for two classes and a class is predicted using the Max-winning strategy. keywords: audio; binary; broadcasting; class; classes; classification; content; data; features; international; mfcc; model; news; radio; svm; table cache: icter-279.pdf plain text: icter-279.txt item: #19 of 55 id: icter-282 author: Ratnayaka, Gathika; Rupasinghe, Thejan; de Silva, Nisansa; Warushavithana, Menuka; Gamage, Viraj Salaka; Perera, Madhavi; Perera, Amal Shehan title: Classifying Sentences in Court Case Transcripts using Discourse and Argumentative Properties date: 2019-09-04 words: 9255 flesch: 52 summary: The dataset obtained from CST bank contains sentence pairs which are annotated according to the CST relation types. Support Vector Machine (SVM) was used as SVMs have shown promising results in previous studies where discourse relations have been used to identify relationships between sentences [23], [24]. Table II provides details on the number of sentence pairs in the data set for each relationship type. keywords: arguments; case; court; court case; discourse; human; information; pairs; relationship; sentences; study; system; transcripts cache: icter-282.pdf plain text: icter-282.txt item: #20 of 55 id: icter-286 author: Senarath, Yasas; Jihan, Nadheesh; Ranathunga, Surangika title: A Hybrid Approach for Aspect Extraction from Customer Reviews date: 2019-09-04 words: 5487 flesch: 51 summary: Kim [3] shows that even though non-static CNN models are expected to perform better than static CNN models, it is not true for all the cases. We compare the effect of initiating the word embedding features for CNN models using Skip- gram and Continuous bag of word (CBOW) trained word2vec keywords: aspect; cnn; domain; extraction; features; layer; models; static; word2vec cache: icter-286.pdf plain text: icter-286.txt item: #21 of 55 id: icter-294 author: Abd-Alrhman, Ahmed Mustafa; Ekenberg, Love title: A Multi-layered Data Preparation Model for Health Information in Sudan date: 2020-12-20 words: 11998 flesch: 39 summary: Management of health data at national levels is gaining more global attention, especially in developing countries, by bringing forward compliance with international goals [24]. To tackle cost and technological obstacles in developing countries, Bram et al. suggest that health data should be collected by hiring community health workers who interact A Multi-layered Data Preparation Model for Health Information in Sudan 4 International Journal on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions December 2020 directly with the population and deliver health care and consultations [28]. keywords: collection; data; data collection; data quality; data template; disease; facilities; facility; health; health data; health information; ict; information; layer; management; medical; model; preparation; quality; state; sudan; system; template cache: icter-294.pdf plain text: icter-294.txt item: #22 of 55 id: icter-297 author: Ketipearachchi, Tharindu; Wickramasinghe, Manjusri title: Invisible Colour Image Watermarking Technique for Colour Images Using DWT and SVD date: 2020-06-27 words: 10604 flesch: 55 summary: [20] has suggested a scheme that divide both cover image and watermark image to its RGB components and embed respective components separately The DWT/SVD major image watermarking algorithm explained in Section III.2(B) followed by the component based watermarking algorithm to embed watermark image to red, blue, green components in Section III.2(C). keywords: algorithm; alpha; attack; colour; component; cover; cover image; dwt; fig; image; psnr; values; watermark; watermark image; watermarking cache: icter-297.pdf plain text: icter-297.txt item: #23 of 55 id: icter-299 author: Lenadora, Damitha Sandeepa; Ranathunge, Rakhitha Ransara; Samarawickrama, Chamath Nayanajith; De Silva, Yumantha Irandajith; Perera, Indika; Welivita, Anuradha title: Extraction of Semantic Content and Styles in Comic Books date: 2020-04-09 words: 9932 flesch: 55 summary: However, [16] explains that the traditional face detection and face recognition techniques do not perform well when applied to comic book characters due to the fact that they possess considerable differences when compared to real humans. The work in [17] has extended the aforementioned method for the detection and identification of comic book characters. keywords: analysis; association; balloons; books; character; comic; content; dataset; detection; extraction; method; model; recognition; results; speech; tail; text cache: icter-299.pdf plain text: icter-299.txt item: #24 of 55 id: icter-307 author: Sandaruwan, Supun Tharaka; Lorensuhewa, Susil Aruna Shantha; Munasinghe, Kalyani title: Identification of Abusive Sinhala Comments in Social Media using Text Mining and Machine Learning Techniques date: 2020-04-09 words: 10531 flesch: 59 summary: This seed word set contains base forms of Sinhala abusive words. Further, we built two new lexicons which contain Sinhala abusive words. keywords: comments; corpus; detection; feature; gram; hate; language; learning; media; offensive; sinhala; speech; table; words cache: icter-307.pdf plain text: icter-307.txt item: #25 of 55 id: icter-332 author: Jayasekara, Randika; Weerasinghe, Ayesh; Wijethunga, Kalana; Perera, Indika; Wickramarachchi, Anuradha title: Tool Support for Distributed Workflow Management with Task Clustering date: 2021-03-30 words: 5923 flesch: 53 summary: SwarmForm is open source and offers better performance than existing distributed workflow management systems by clustering workflow tasks to reduce overheads while allowing the users to choose between task-wise and cluster-wise execution of workflows depending on the workflow nature. The workflow definitions of CyberShake 100 job workflow, LIGO 100 job workflow, and SIPHT 97 job workflow provided by Pegasus workflow generator are used for the evaluation [20]. keywords: algorithm; clustering; execution; makespan; management; resource; swarmform; task; wmss; workflow cache: icter-332.pdf plain text: icter-332.txt item: #26 of 55 id: icter-334 author: Wijegunarathna, Kalana Induwara; Maduranga, Uditha; Weerasinghe, Sadeep; Perera, Indika; Wickramarachchi, Anuradha title: Cluster Identification in Metagenomics – A Novel Technique of Dimensionality Reduction through Autoencoders date: 2021-03-30 words: 7475 flesch: 51 summary: Genomic sequence data consists of extensive amounts of sequence data and features. While the creation of an isolated, lonely clusters consisting of data points from the right species is useful in the context of identifying the number of organisms in the sample, this sort of isolation can be costly in terms of taxonomic information. keywords: autoencoders; clustering; clusters; data; dbscan; dimensionality; fig; genomic; pca; points; reduction; sne; visualization; vol cache: icter-334.pdf plain text: icter-334.txt item: #27 of 55 id: icter-341 author: Musthafa, Fathima Naja title: A Scoping Review on Automated Software Testing with Special Reference to Android Based Mobile Application Testing date: 2021-08-04 words: 10046 flesch: 54 summary: The study must include relevant information of mobile application testing covering the scope of the study. Studies which were excluded were based on the following concerns. Though the reference is on android platform, the challenges and importance of mobile application testing when performing automated testing, as discussed under the A and D subsections of the third section is common to all the mobile application and certain points in the B and C subsections can also be taken into consideration for other platforms too. keywords: android; application; application testing; apps; automation; development; devices; gui; international; literature; mobile; model; process; research; review; software; software testing; study; techniques; testing; tools cache: icter-341.pdf plain text: icter-341.txt item: #28 of 55 id: icter-348 author: Anuradha, Isuri; Liyanage, Chamila; Weerasinghe, Ruvan title: Estimating the Effects of Text Genre, Image Resolution and Algorithmic Complexity needed for Sinhala Optical Character Recognition date: 2021-08-04 words: 6191 flesch: 57 summary: Keywords— Sinhala OCR, Optical Character Recognition, Tesseract, Deep learning. The proposed Sinhala OCR is discussed in this paper with special focus on the text genre, image resolution and algorithmic complexities needed for training an OCR system for the Sinhala character set. keywords: accuracy; books; character; data; font; images; model; ocr; recognition; script; sinhala; system; tesseract; text; training cache: icter-348.pdf plain text: icter-348.txt item: #29 of 55 id: icter-355 author: Liyanage, Kshithija; Wijethilake, Tharindu; Gunawardana, Kasun; Thilakarathne, Kenneth; Wijesekera, Primal; Keppitiyagama, Chamath title: User-Controlled Subflow Selection in MPTCP: A Case Study date: 2021-03-30 words: 7828 flesch: 53 summary: When establishing MPTCP connections over two hosts, it first initiates the connection via one of the available network interfaces. If one of the hosts of MPTCP connection is incompatible with MPTCP, it will downgrade the connection to traditional TCP. keywords: application; connection; data; hoc; interfaces; kernel; mptcp; network; path; scheduler; scheduling; subflow; user cache: icter-355.pdf plain text: icter-355.txt item: #30 of 55 id: icter-36 author: Kapurubandara, Mahesha; Lawson, Robyn title: Availability of E-commerce Support for SMEs in Developing Countries date: 2008-10-24 words: 5839 flesch: 43 summary: Accepted: 21 July 2008 Abstract: Although research indicates e-commerce offers viable and practical solutions for organizations to meet challenges of a predominantly changing environment, the few available studies related to SMEs in developing countries reveal a delay or failure of SMEs in adopting ICT and e-commerce technologies. Nevertheless, it is imperative for SMEs to adopt e-commerce technologies to survive in intense competitive national and global markets. keywords: adoption; awareness; barriers; commerce; countries; developing; ict; infrastructure; lack; smes; sri; support cache: icter-36.pdf plain text: icter-36.txt item: #31 of 55 id: icter-361 author: Seneviratne, Piyumi Wathsala; Perera, Dilanka; Samarasekara, Harinda; Keppitiyagama, Chamath; De Soyza, Kasun; Thilakarathna, Kenneth; Wijesekera, Primal title: Don't Forget to Include that Camera in the Threat Model date: 2021-08-04 words: 9041 flesch: 57 summary: ATM PIN is one of the main focused areas of their study. Hence, the ATM system is mainly operating under the trust assumption that ATM PIN is secured and kept confidential from both the banking system and employees of the bank. keywords: atm; atm pin; banks; camera; fig; forearm; kiosks; pin; pin pad; security; surveillance; surveillance cameras; threat; user; video; vss cache: icter-361.pdf plain text: icter-361.txt item: #32 of 55 id: icter-362 author: Kegalle, H. N.; Liyanage, H. S. U.; Jayaratne, K. L.; Wickramasinghe, M. I. E. title: An Affordable, Virtual Reality Based Training Application for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation date: 2021-02-28 words: 8258 flesch: 57 summary: D. Handling the failure to track hands due to occlusion Under the assumption, the left hand is occluded by the right hand, the following algorithm was used to handle the failure of hand tracking when hands occlude each other. The glove has improved the realistic level of the Application Q9 I would like to use hand detection glove in the VR based CPR application. keywords: application; avatar; chest; compression; cpr; evaluation; glove; hand; manikin; solution; tracking; training; user cache: icter-362.pdf plain text: icter-362.txt item: #33 of 55 id: icter-366 author: Sandaruwan, Dinidu; Fernando, Subha; Sumathipala, Sagara title: Neural Machine Translation Approach for Singlish to English Translation date: 2021-08-04 words: 5166 flesch: 57 summary: TensorFlow NMT is being backed by Google AI team since 2017 and makes room for researchers to build competitive translation models from scratch Even though this has been tried for a couple of years, many of the attempts were based on statistical language translation approaches due to the challenge of finding a large dataset to use deep learning approaches [3]. keywords: attention; decoder; encoder; english; language; machine; model; neural; nmt; seq2seq; singlish; translation; word cache: icter-366.pdf plain text: icter-366.txt item: #34 of 55 id: icter-37 author: Nandasara, Turrance; Kodama, Shigeaki; Choong, Chew Yew; Caminero, Rizza; Tarcan, Ahmed; Riza, Hammam; Nagano, Robin Lee; Mikami, Yoshiki title: An Analysis of Asian Language Web Pages date: 2008-10-24 words: 7700 flesch: 58 summary: Abstract: This paper gives an overview and an evaluation of Web pages of Asian languages on the Web, in particular of those languages that have not been focused on so far. Keywords: Asian languages, Data Mining, Web Statistics, Language Identification, Standards, Multilingualism, Encoding, Web as Corpus, Digital Language Divide. keywords: arabic; asian; country; devanagari; encodings; language; latin; number; pages; presence; region; script; table; utf-8; web; web pages cache: icter-37.pdf plain text: icter-37.txt item: #35 of 55 id: icter-373 author: Wickramanayaka, Nishadi Nuwanmini; Keppitiyagama, Chamath; Thilakarathna, Kenneth title: Communication-Affinity Aware Colocation and Merging of Containers date: 2023-02-07 words: 7597 flesch: 50 summary: But the practical benefit would be less than the theoretical benefit since single host container networks (bridge) also add an overhead, but less than the overhead incurred by multi-host container networks (overlay). Initial service communication graph for Sock-Shop μApp International Journal on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions 2022 15 (3): December 2022 International Journal on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions Fig. keywords: affinity; application; colocation; communication; container; deployment; fig; host; inter; merging; microservices; network; overhead; services cache: icter-373.pdf plain text: icter-373.txt item: #36 of 55 id: icter-38 author: Ranasinghe, Chaminda; Madurapperuma, A. P; Kodikara, N. D title: Foraging in a Grid World Using Action Templates date: 2008-10-24 words: 6125 flesch: 52 summary: Concurrency is a basic fact of nature for achieving complex behaviour. Behavioural Concentres The groups of actions in an AT that consist of AAs are the basis for building complex behaviour. keywords: aaants; aas; action; agents; ats; behaviour; coordination; experiments; grid; learning; model; world cache: icter-38.pdf plain text: icter-38.txt item: #37 of 55 id: icter-384 author: Wijesinghe, Chaminda; Hansson, Henrik; Ekenberg, Love title: User Acceptance of a Novelty Idea Bank System to Reinforce ICT Innovations: Sri Lankan University- Industry perspective date: 2022-07-06 words: 9354 flesch: 52 summary: Since most system users are young undergraduates, 3 Chaminda Wijesinghe #1 , Henrik Hansson 2, Love Ekenberg3 International Journal on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions June 2022 their intentions to use the system may be different from industry users. Consequently, advanced system users may be efficient users who are familiar with the navigational structure of the system. keywords: acceptance; bank; doi; ease; ict; idea; industry; innovation; intention; knowledge; model; study; system; tam; technology; use; usefulness; vol cache: icter-384.pdf plain text: icter-384.txt item: #38 of 55 id: icter-387 author: Piyadasa, Tharinda Dilshan; Gunawardana, Kasun title: A Review on Oversampling Techniques for Solving the Data Imbalance Problem in Classification date: 2023-06-13 words: 8268 flesch: 48 summary: (B) Noisy minority class samples distort the decision boundary by overlapping with majority class samples Moreover, when considering real-life datasets, there can also be instances where multiple dense or sparse clusters of minority class samples are present within the data distribution, as illustrated in Fig. 3 This metric simply represents the ratio between the majority and minority class samples. keywords: boundary; class; class imbalance; class samples; data; imbalance; minority; minority class; minority samples; oversampling; samples; smote; techniques cache: icter-387.pdf plain text: icter-387.txt item: #39 of 55 id: icter-388 author: Jayasinghe, Sahan; Rambukkanage, Lakith Ransika; Silva, Ashan; de Silva, Nisansa; Perera, Amal Shehan title: Unified Legal Party Based Sentiment Analysis Pipeline date: 2022-11-01 words: 7518 flesch: 50 summary: But, the location entities Cupey and Puerto Rico are not legal parties. A. Legal parties In a legal case, a party consists of a person, a group of people and organizations[1]. keywords: analysis; case; court; entities; entity; international; model; party; pipeline; reference; sentiment; silva; system cache: icter-388.pdf plain text: icter-388.txt item: #40 of 55 id: icter-389 author: Jayawickrama, Vihanga; Weeraprameshwara, Gihan; de Silva, Nisansa; Wijeratne, Yudhanjaya title: Facebook for Sentiment Analysis: Baseline Models to Predict Facebook Reactions of Sinhala Posts date: 2022-11-07 words: 7375 flesch: 57 summary: Facebook reactions Like, Love, Wow, Haha, Sad, Angry, and Thankful are utilized as the sentiment annotation of a post within the scope of this project. Further, the model only attempts to predict the positivity or the negativity of Facebook reactions added to a post by users, and not of the actual emotion inflicted in the users by the post. keywords: analysis; equation; facebook; model; post; rating; reactions; sentiment; set; silva; sinhala; star; value cache: icter-389.pdf plain text: icter-389.txt item: #41 of 55 id: icter-39 author: Suraweera, N. P.; Ranasinghe, D. N. title: Adaptive Structural Optimisation of Neural Networks date: 2008-10-24 words: 6669 flesch: 53 summary: RESULTS AND EVALUATION Experimental results were obtained for each of the case studies with the parameters set as: Swarm (population) size = 30, c1=c2=2.0 Maximum allowed number of hidden layers = 5 Maximum allowed number of nodes in hidden layer = 10 Number of training epochs = 200 Iris Data Classification results ‘Global Best’ approach Table 1: Results of Iris data set classification by Global Best approach Inst ance Optimal No. of hidden layers No. of hidden nodes in each hidden layer Classification Accuracy (%) The selection of the optimal number of hidden layers and hidden nodes has a significant impact on the performance of a neural network, though typically decided in an adhoc manner. keywords: accuracy; ann; classification; data; layer; network; nodes; number; pso cache: icter-39.pdf plain text: icter-39.txt item: #42 of 55 id: icter-42 author: Kandasamy, Ganeshamoorthy; Ranasinghe, Nalin; Malik, Silva; Wait, Richard title: On the Performance of the Shallow Water Model on Distributed Memory Architectures date: 2009-12-02 words: 6017 flesch: 57 summary: Index Terms—MPI, Linda, multi processors, Shallow water equations, tsunami model. II. Shallow water equations have been widely used to study the Tsunami phenomenon keywords: data; domain; equations; grid; memory; model; parallel; processors; sub; tsunami; water; ∂ ∂ cache: icter-42.pdf plain text: icter-42.txt item: #43 of 55 id: icter-43 author: Ekanayake, Hiran; Karunarathna, Damitha; Hewagamage, Kamalanath title: Determining the Psychological Involvement in Multimedia Interactions date: 2009-12-02 words: 5773 flesch: 47 summary: Finally, EOG signals received from the NeuroProbe and GSR signals received from the brick are fused at a software developed by us. Table V gives the means and standard deviations calculated for EOG signal waveforms of window size 10 seconds for randomly selected instances of interaction I05 and instances when concentration type (active) and drowsy type behaviours are present during the interaction I06. keywords: arousal; attention; computer; eog; eye; fig; gsr; human; interaction; involvement; multimedia; signals; waveforms cache: icter-43.pdf plain text: icter-43.txt item: #44 of 55 id: icter-45 author: Chew, Yew Choong; Mikami, Yoshiki; Marasinghe, Chandrajith Ashuboda; Nandasara, S. T. title: Optimizing n-gram order of an N-gram based language identification algorithm for 63 written languages date: 2009-12-02 words: 5253 flesch: 58 summary: Many researchers [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] have achieved excellent results on language identification based on a few selected European languages. The principal idea of using n-gram for language identification is that every language contains its own unique n-grams and tends to use certain n-grams more frequently than others, hence providing a clue about the language. keywords: algorithm; gram; identification; language; nandasara; order; target; training cache: icter-45.pdf plain text: icter-45.txt item: #45 of 55 id: icter-450 author: Kugathasan, Archchana; Sumathipala, Sagara title: Neural Machine Translation for Sinhala-English Code-Mixed Text date: 2023-02-07 words: 8749 flesch: 59 summary: The augmentation pipeline is applied with current translation models such as Google’s Neural Machine Translation System (NMTS) We randomly choose 100 translated sentences, provided them to the linguistic experts of Sinhala language, and asked them to rank the translation good or bad, considering the following factors: spelling errors, the grammatical pattern of the sentence, and meaningful translation. keywords: approach; code; corpus; decoder; english; english code; input; language; machine; media; model; neural; normalization; sentence; seq2seq; sequence; sinhala; study; text; translation; word cache: icter-450.pdf plain text: icter-450.txt item: #46 of 55 id: icter-451 author: Ekenberg, Love; Fasth, Tobias; Koulolias, Vasilis; Larsson, Aron; Larsson, Aron; Danielson, Mats; Komendantova, Nadejda; Mihai, Adriana title: A Framework for COVID-19 Pandemic Intervention Modelling and Analysis for Policy Formation Support in Botswana date: 2023-02-07 words: 12397 flesch: 38 summary: Understanding of preferences from various stakeholder groups such as policymakers, industry, young community, civil society, and academia, contributes significantly to social acceptance of risk mitigation measures. There are several challenges with modelling the effects of risk mitigation measures. keywords: age; analysis; botswana; cases; countries; covid-19; criteria; decision; group; health; international; level; measures; mitigation; model; number; pandemic; people; policy; population; public; risk; services; support; url cache: icter-451.pdf plain text: icter-451.txt item: #47 of 55 id: icter-452 author: Maralanda, Yashodha Ruchini; Hameed, Pathima Nusrath title: Improving Drug Combination Repositioning using Positive Unlabelled Learning and Ensemble Learning date: 2023-02-07 words: 7604 flesch: 48 summary: Li et al.[4]’s study was composed of 1,196 labelled positive drug combinations for the 606 drugs that we are interested. Since there exist approximately 16,000 [3] of approved drugs in the market, an extremely large number of drug combinations can be formed. keywords: approach; classifier; combinations; data; drug; learning; model; negative; pul; random; repositioning; samples cache: icter-452.pdf plain text: icter-452.txt item: #48 of 55 id: icter-46 author: Maldeni, Malanie HMCM; Jayasena, Sanath title: Information and Communication Technology Usage date: 2009-12-02 words: 5796 flesch: 51 summary: Further, the performance was studied from two angles as ICT performance to business performance [10]. Identification of suitable metrics to assess ICT impact on business performance is a difficult task. keywords: bank; banking; branch; branches; correlation; customers; ict; increase; level; literacy; performance; staff; usage cache: icter-46.pdf plain text: icter-46.txt item: #49 of 55 id: icter-47 author: Olajubu, Emmanuel; Afolabi, Babajide; Ajayi, Anuoluwapo title: A Customized e-Shopping System for SMEs in Developing Countries date: 2009-12-02 words: 6225 flesch: 55 summary: The problems facing SMEs in the region are itemised The International Journal on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions 2009 02 (02) : 38 - 46 December 2009 The International Journal on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions 02 E. A. Olajubu, B. S. Afolabi and A. O. Ajayi 39 39 and feasible solutions offered so as to encourage SMEs in the region to adopt e-Business transactions ICT and e-Business models have become the major drivers of business innovation and global competitiveness as the world become a global village. keywords: business; buyer; commerce; countries; goods; ict; internet; nations; products; shopping; smes cache: icter-47.pdf plain text: icter-47.txt item: #50 of 55 id: icter-70 author: Hettiarachchi, Enosha; Mozelius, Peter; Hewagamage, K. P.; Hatakka, Mathias; Balasooriya, Isuru; Karunarathne, Damith title: eNOSHA - The Design and Development of a Learning Object Repository date: 2011-02-09 words: 6056 flesch: 59 summary: CopyrightsAndOtherR estrictions M M M M M M M M 6.3. Audience M M M M M M M M 2. keywords: content; development; enosha; learning; m m; metadata; search; system; ucsc; user cache: icter-70.pdf plain text: icter-70.txt item: #51 of 55 id: icter-72 author: Wasala, Ruwan Asanka; Weerasinghe, Ruwan; Pushpananda, Randil; Liyanage, Chamila; Jayalatharachchi, Eranga title: An Open-Source Data Driven Spell Checker for Sinhala date: 2011-02-09 words: 8675 flesch: 62 summary: The average word length (i.e. the number of Unicode code points) of Sinhala words was found to be 4. In the pre- processing module, the system first tokenizes the text stream and builds a list containing unique Sinhala words found in the text. keywords: algorithm; checker; dental; end; errors; examples; frequencies; length; list; module; retroflex; sinhala; spell; spelling; syllable; text; word cache: icter-72.pdf plain text: icter-72.txt item: #52 of 55 id: icter-74 author: Sandaruwan, Damitha title: A Ship Simulation System for Maritime Education date: 2011-03-08 words: 9639 flesch: 55 summary: This method can be used to predict real time ship motions with high CPU effectiveness. A comparative validation is done but it is more suited for ship hull design and cannot be used for real- time ship motion simulations. keywords: algorithms; degrees; environment; fig; figure; heave; height; international; model; motion; pitch; prediction; real; roll; sea; ship; ship motion; simulation; sway; system; time; wave; yaw cache: icter-74.pdf plain text: icter-74.txt item: #53 of 55 id: icter-80 author: Bakay, Aziz; Okafor, Collins Emeka; Ujah, Nacasius U title: Factors Explaining ICT Diffusion: Case Study of Selected Latin American Countries date: 2011-02-09 words: 6971 flesch: 50 summary: To gauge such, we examine the influence of ICT diffusion on a country’s economic orientation. The result indicates that a country’s IT expenditure, age dependency ratio, literacy rate, and urbanization draw significant attention in explaining ICT diffusion in this region. keywords: countries; country; diffusion; digital; economic; ict; index; information; lag; latin; model; readiness; table; variables cache: icter-80.pdf plain text: icter-80.txt item: #54 of 55 id: icter-81 author: Tharanganie, Thilaksha title: An Assessment of Computer Awareness and Literacy among Entry-Level Sri Lankan Undergraduates: A Case Study date: 2012-04-19 words: 7941 flesch: 58 summary: The model suggests that the new variable is dependent on the factors: usage of Internet, monthly family income level, methods of obtaining computer knowledge, and locations of using a computer. These factors were identified from the questionnaire (Refer Appendix) and they are Gender, District, Family member who does IT related job, Monthly family income, Usage of resources, Purposes of using a computer, Frequency of using a computer, Locations of using a computer, Software packages used, Methods of obtaining computer knowledge, Usage of Internet, Uses of Internet, and Frequency of using Internet. keywords: awareness; computer; computer literacy; internet; knowledge; literacy; model; new; students; study; table; university; variable cache: icter-81.pdf plain text: icter-81.txt item: #55 of 55 id: icter-95 author: Islam, M Sirajul; Grönlund, Åke title: Factors influencing the adoption of mobile phones among the farmers in Bangladesh: Theories and practices date: 2011-04-07 words: 9369 flesch: 51 summary:  International Journal on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions 2011 04 (01) : 4 - 14  Abstract — This paper investigates the factors influencing the adoption of mobile phone technology among farmers in Bangladesh. This is an interpretive case study [64] aiming to investigate the factors influencing adoption of mobile phone technology among the farmers in Bangladesh for a broader purpose of offering a better understanding of how to provide useful information services to the rural communities in the developing regions as part of the process of overall rural development. keywords: acceptance; adoption; bangladesh; factors; farmers; influence; information; journal; mobile; model; new; phone; research; rural; service; study; technology; use; vol cache: icter-95.pdf plain text: icter-95.txt