Deepanjal Shrestha

Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics · Department of Computer Science and Technology

Innovative global optimization approaches have attracted many research scientists, decision makers, managers, executives, engineers, academicians, officers, policy makers and practicing researchers in recent years as powerful intelligent computational techniques for solving many complex real-world application problems. The 7th International Confer...

Innovative global optimization approaches have attracted many research scientists, decision makers, managers, executives, engineers, academicians, officers, policy makers and practicing researchers in recent years as powerful intelligent computational techniques for solving many complex real-world application problems. The International Conference...

Digital technologies have become important in tourism business and their development is reshaping this industry. This paper discusses the role of emerging technologies on the digital tourism business ecosystems model for Nepal. It highlights the role of emerging technology and the value they add to the current digital business systems. The study em...

The development and advancement of technologies are opening up new facets of knowledge and research to find better implementations in the current world. These systems are already in use in business sectors of all types and have become important components of business and governance. ICT and digital technologies have found their role in every sector...

This work presents preliminary analysis and design of the tourism recom-mender system. The work considers Pokhara city of Nepal as the domain of study as it is the second-largest city and tourism capital of Nepal. The work is built on data from travel websites, published and unpublished reports, literature, and a pilot study conducted in the same c...

This work assesses the degree of satisfaction tourists receive as final recipients in a tourism destination based on the fact that satisfied tourists can make a significant contribution to the growth and continuous improvement of a tourism business. The work considers Pokhara, the tourism capital of Nepal as a prefecture of study. A stratified samp...

Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) continue to redefine and revolutionize the way we all live and work. ICTs have the potential to accelerate connectivity, voice, and agency within the political, economic, and social fabric of society. The rapid growth of high-speed internet, web-enabled application, and mobile technology have changed th...

TripAdvisor is a famous social and travel site that helps people to arrange for different products and services in a destination. This work is an attempt to analyze the TripAdvisor data for the years 2018 to 2020 to find out interesting features, reviews, and aspects embedded in it. The work employs an unsupervised machine learning approach to disc...

This presentation is done at International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Optimization (ICO’2021)

Agriculture is the main industry of Nepal, which contributes around 31.7% of GDP, employing about 65% of the total population. The geography of Nepal consists of three principal regions, the mountainous region, the hilly region, and the plains. The diverse geography and variation of temperature make the country a suitable land for agriculture and c...

This is an oral presentation at the 7th International Istanbul Scientific Research Congress

This is a presentation that was done in the 3RD INTERNATIONAL "BAŞKENT" CONGRESS ON PHYSICAL, SOCIAL, AND HEALTH SCIENCES

The popularity of China as an educational hub for international students has grown in recent years. Attractive scholarship, low cost of living combined with world-class infrastructure makes China one of the leading educational hubs around the world. In this paper we discuss the satisfaction level of Ph.D. students from Nepal, studying under the Chi...

Tourism finds enormous application of ICT in the development of strategic and operational goals. ICT promises long-term benefits and is a leading force in the tourism industry to enhance development and economic growth. The tourism industry in the western world and some developed countries of Asia have applied ICT for more than 30 years, and have g...

Communication is vital for human existence. In all social structures and cultural practices, communication is very important. The development of culture and society is greatly influenced by how individuals interact, interpret information, and communicate with one another. The last few years have seen significant development in the field of Informat...

Communication is vital for human existence. In all social structures and cultural practices, communication is very important. The development of culture and society is greatly influenced by how individuals interact, interpret information, and communicate with one another. The last few years have seen significant development in the field of Informat...

Tourism Recommender System

This work presents preliminary analysis and design of the tourism recommender system. The work considers Pokhara city of Nepal as the domain of study as it is the second-largest city and tourism capital of Nepal. The work is built on data from travel websites, published and unpublished reports, literature, and a pilot study conducted in the same ci...

A well-designed website is mandatory for good marketing and proper tourism business. This research considers Nepal as a domain of study and specifically explores welcomenepal.com, the official tourism portal as a reference for the study. The work is based on the study of the existing literature, user-survey, and technical testing of the website usi...

Digitalization and the inter-connectedness of business systems have increased the dependency between business entities. The ever-changing environment and business demands have increased competition and collaboration among diverse entities, which have forced the concept of ecosystems models. This work highlights the need for a digital tourism busine...

Religion is a very sensitive issue and it can lead to chaos and turmoil that may cause serious risk and social disturbance for tourist if they are not aware of religious norms and sensitivity in a religious destination. Further, the issues of panhandling, selling fake items, charging excessive amounts and abusing females and children's in meditatio...

This work analyses the impact of social network sites on the life of a university student in terms of intensity of use, personal life satisfaction, social trust, social expression and physical health. Study is based on close end survey design and consists of one hundred and fifty-four (154) respondents of four constituent campuses of Pokhara Univer...

Tourism websites are the face of the tourism industry and tourism websites must be well designed to meet user expectations. This work evaluates and analyzes the user requirements to propose design solutions and recommendations for the tourism website of Nepal. The study is drawn on the basis closed-end survey and technical testing of the official t...

Network embedding is a method to learn low dimensional representation of nodes in large graph with the goal of capturing and preserving the network structure. Graph convolution networks (GCN) are successfully applied in node embedding task as they can learn sparse and discrete dependency in the data. Most of the existing work in GCN requires costly...

Tourism finds enormous application of ICT in the development of strategic and operational goals. ICT promises long-term benefits and is a leading force in the tourism industry to enhance development and economic growth. The tourism industry in the western world and some developed countries of Asia have applied ICT for more than 30 years, and have g...

Religion is a very sensitive issue and it can lead to chaos and turmoil that may cause serious risk and social disturbance for tourist if they are not aware of religious norms and sensitivity in a religious destination. Further, the issues of panhandling, selling fake items, charging excessive amounts and abusing females and children's in meditatio...

Religious tourism is a special category of tourism that holds a special place in the tourism business of Nepal. This work proposes the analysis and design of the religious tourism recommender system for Nepal. The work is built by analyzing the core requirements of tourist and religious tourism destinations through tourist interviews and literature...

Agriculture is the main industry of Nepal which is challenged at current times due rate of farmer's dissatisfaction leading to ageing problem, workforce migration and lack of interest of the current generation in this sector. Farmers till date get very less return on their product and services compared to the market price. Lack of proper informatio...

ICT tools and technologies are important components of business today. Tourism industry finds massive application of these technologies in the promotion, management, planning and execution of tourism business. The recent studies have shown that more and more tourist around the world use social applications, tourism applications, emails, web sites t...

Nepal is a sensitive and disaster-prone country where safety and security risk are of high concern for travelers. Digital technologies can play a vital role in addressing safety and security issues in the country. This research work proposes a Digital tourism security system design for addressing the safety and security issues in tourism industry o...

A robust and well-designed e-government application is the core requirement for the successful implementation of e-government services. Nepal has implemented e-governance in many of its important sectors and the e-taxation system is one of the primary implementations. Besides normal testing, there are no concrete studies that have been undertaken t...

The application of Internet technology has created enormous impact on banking sector with the implementation of many techno-oriented services like Internet banking, EFT, branchless banking, Automated Clearing House (ACH) transactions etc. Study of customer's attitude in terms of trust, perceived risk and ease of use of a particular technology is as...

Network embedding is a method to learn low dimensional representation of nodes in large graph with the goal of capturing and preserving the network structure. Graph convolution networks (GCN) are successfully applied in node embedding task as they can learn sparse and discrete dependency in the data. Most of the existing work in GCN requires costly...

Tourism security has become a matter of great concern over the years for tourist around the world and this attribute plays an important role in the selection of a destination. The application of technology can greatly enhance safety and security environment of a tourist in a particular destination. This work proposes the analysis and design of a mo...

Tourism web sites and web portals are the most important tools for growth and development of tourism business. This paper present the analysis, design and development of tourism web portal for Nepal based on UML approach. The web portal requirements were gathered from three different entities that included inbound and outbound tourist, tourism gove...

E-governance ICT application manages government services electronically and provide easy access of all those government services to the citizens. E-government services have grown over the years and governments around the world are making enormous efforts to bring e-governance in the hands of every citizen. A robust and well designed e-government ap...

The practice of celebrity endorsements has become a pervasive element of advertising industry in all over the world. In this 21 st contemporary marketing environment teenagers comprise an important market segment because market is getting bigger where teens spend huge amount of money for products endorsed by celebrity. Here, the study focuses on ex...

The developing countries are struggling with poor governance and management of services. E-Governance is seen as the best solution to overcome these problems. The under developed and developing countries are initiating many projects and plans to implement e-governance in their system so that they can provide automated and better service delivery to...

Tourism is the second biggest industry of Nepal and it serves as the primary source of business and employment in the country. The ICT boom around the globe has a poor state in Nepal and the country lacks behind in digital service implementations. The global pressure has forced Nepalese tourism industry and Government organizations to implement ICT...

ICT has played a vital role in the business development and has brought profound changes in the business practices around the world. The huge potential and unmatched power of ICT allows business houses to grow their business sphere beyond their capabilities. Many industries have witnessed a big transition due to application of ICT. Tourism is one s...

This paper presents 96X96 fingerprint sensor using no bezel electrode. It was fabricated with standard 0.25μm CMOS technology. The fingerprint sensor was molded with 80μm-thick epoxy after fabrication. The fingerprint sensor cells for pseudo-direct method with sensor cell isolation scheme were implemented, which include sensing cells, isolation cel...

Tourism is one such vital industry that finds enormous application of ICT promising long term benefits and enhancing economic growth. Nepal which is becoming one of the favorite tourist destinations is not able attain benefits from ICT due to the poor or fragmented implementation of this technology. In our study we have examined the ICT infrastruct...

In this paper, we design and implement a vision-based bare-hand interface which manipulates a virtual object in augmented reality environments in a natural fashion. For years in the researches of developing vision-based human computer interaction, a lot of works have been conducted with the augmented reality technology. Various vision-based interfa...

In this paper, we design and implement a vision-based bare-hand interface which manipulates a virtual object in augmented reality environments in a natural fashion. For years in the researches of developing vision-based human computer interaction, a lot of works have been conducted with the augmented reality technology. Various vision-based interfa...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has revolutionized the world and has created its need in the society. The significance achieved by ICT over the past several years in the areas of employment, education and governance has made government, private and public sectors to adapt it for business and governance. E-Governance has emerged as a...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has revolutionized the world and has created its need in the society. The significance achieved by ICT over the past several years in the areas of employment, education and governance has made government, private and public sectors to adapt it for business and governance. E-Governance has emerged as a...

In this paper, the combination of user identification is proposed from camera and microphone sensors for PS-LTE(public safety LTE) users with FOTA(Firmware Over The Air) server. For this purpose, we use microphone sensor for the ID verification of PS-LTE user with voice recognition. The application of camera sensors is motivated by the shape of ear...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has revolutionized the world and has profound impact on the social and economic development of a country. Implementation, practice and accessibility of ICT is viewed as an integral part of any countries’ strategy today. These new technologies are becoming popular due to their ability to produce, distri...

This study examines the effect of liquidity on the performance of Nepalese commercial banks. Investment ratio, liquidity ratio, capital ratio and quick ratio are the independent variables used in this study. The dependent variables are return on equity (ROE) and return on assets (ROA), while one year lagged variables for independent variables are a...

The increased use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is playing a vital role in the development of a nation. ICT has revolutionized the world and has brought profound impact on the social and economic development of a country. Implementation, practice and accessibility of ICT is viewed as an integral part of any countries' strategy t...

Now-a-days the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to develop and strengthen the sector of agriculture has become seemingly promising. ICT can help a farmer to get relevant information regarding different agricultural information like crop, diseases, marketing, etc. Also, studies have depicted that mobile phone penetration in Nep...

21st century has seen a tremendous advancement in the field of Information and Communication Technology. The commercial utilization of Internet tools and technologies has brought change in the traditional working environment. The functioning in an electronic environment is far more complicated than working in traditional environment and this brings...

The electronic examination management system is a integrated web based software that integrates student records, examination data and processes (external/internal). It is based on three tier architecture, Web based interface, business application logic and data management system. There is a clear demarcation between private and public data and a nu...

As the increasing influence of online media, companies' websites became important communication channels between companies and customer. Company utilizes it as a marketing tool for a variety of purposes including promoting its brand or selling products or services and can gain a competitive advantage. Many researchers have reported criteria, method...

The commercial utilization of internet tools and technologies has brought change in the traditional working environment. The functioning in the electronic environment is far more complicated then working in traditional environment and brings many challenges, threats and potential problems. This paper is an attempt to analyze these challenges, threa...