Noel Fernando

University of Colombo · Department of Information Systems Engineering

Abstract—Traveling and tourism is a valuable income source to any country. Having a competitive price is crucial to survive in the current competitive environment.This study is related to forecasting better prices for a railway based tourism company located in the European region, by considering the past sales patterns with the external factors suc...

In order to plan Solid Waste Management (SWM) in a sustainable way, accurate forecasting of solid waste generation and composition plays an important role. Predicting the amount of generated waste is difficult task because it is affected by various influencing factors. Recognizing these factors is essential for implementing waste management policie...

Bitcoin is a popular crypto currency that is used as a mode of investment and a medium for trading goods and services. Anonymity, security and decentralization are significant features of Bitcoin. This creates several opportunities for criminals to involve in illegal and fraudulent activities. This research study aimed to automate the process of ga...

This chapter elaborates how the pedagogical and e-learning techniques are useful in enhancing the quality of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) education in developing countries. From the literature review and outcomes of other surveys, it was proven that the pedagogical techniques are one major missing component of an ICT education sys...

Multiple data collecting methods were applied to collect data on learning Information Communication Technology (ICT) at school level from 1295 students, 60 teachers and 35 principals covering 5 districts and appropriated officers from responsible organizations. This paper assesses the status of key ingredients required for sustainable quality ICT e...

At present, the development of a country is mainly geared to knowledge based economies. Therefore quick access to and the right use of reliable information is fundamental. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plays a vital role in this regard. This brings a need for an ICT literate workforce and integration of ICT into the school curricul...

This study uses a researchable framework to improve the quality of ICT education and the Teaching Learning Assessment/ Evaluation (TLA/TLE) process. It utilizes existing resources while improving the methodologies along with pedagogical techniques and e-Learning approaches used in the secondary schools of Sri Lanka. The study was carried out in two...

The focus of this study is on improving the quality of ICT education in Sri Lankan schools and about necessary enhancements to achieve international standards. For this purpose, a researchable framework was used utilizing the existing resources and improving the existing methodologies along with blended learning and pedagogical techniques. The spec...

The concept of Bloom's taxonomy cognitive domain has been broadly used as a guideline in preparing a reasonable examination paper that consists of questions belonging to various cogni-tive levels which are helpful in evaluating different capabilities of students. Currently, academicians identify Bloom's taxonomy cog-nitive level manually, but that...

The population in the world is increasing extremely and so the people suffering from all kind of diseases. In future, there is a need that will arise for a new system which can early detect these diseases. Nowadays there is a need for methods to detect diseases at early stages. Even though there are various methods to identify diseases, those metho...

An Evolution of internet application and usage, World Wide Web (WWW) offers a great contribution to the global society. One of the major application domains is sharing of the knowledge of users' through a large repository of valuable opinions in the form of texts from different people on numerous products and services at the WWW. It is not a straig...

In Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Computer Science (CS) and similar fields, expected skill development of undergraduates is intensely required for ICT industry, the Software Industry and other related academic fields in computer science. But developing countries like Sri Lanka, national universities accommodate a large number of st...

The main objectives of this paper are (i) identifying the quality status of Information and Communication Technology/ Computer Science (ICT/CS) education in Sri Lanka against the international standards (ii) specifying the gap if there is any, against the international standard, (ii) taking actions to minimize the quality gap and finally developed...

Providing a quality ICT education is a big issue in a developing country like Sri Lanka due to its poor economic situation and other difficulties (e.g. equipment, skilled staff). The main objective of this research is finding a solution to improve the Quality of ICT education in secondary schools using Pedagogical techniques. Specific objectives of...

The main objectives of this paper are (i) identifying the quality status of Information and Communication Technology/ Computer Science (ICT/CS) education in Sri Lanka against the international standards (ii) specifying the gap if there is any, against the international standard, (ii) taking actions to minimize the quality gap and finally developed...

Prediction of dengue outbreaks is a timely need for Sri Lanka due to the dramatic increase of dengue incidences. Objective of this research is to create a simulation model to predict the future dengue outbreaks, intensity of the disease, and the population at risk of having the fever. The proposed model uses three main components, a regression mode...

Prediction of dengue outbreaks is a timely need for Sri Lanka due to the dramatic increase of dengue incidences. Objective of this research is to create a simulation model to predict the future dengue outbreaks, intensity of the disease, and the population at risk of having the fever. The proposed model uses three main components, a regression mode...

Child malnutrition condition can be considered as a major health issue for a country since the children are the future workforce which directly affects the economic growth of the country. This impact is significant mainly in developing countries. This research is carried out with the purpose of reducing the prevalence of child malnutrition based on...

Child malnutrition condition can be considered as a major health issue for a country since they are the future workforce which directly affect to the economic growth of the country. This impact is significant mainly in developing countries. This research is carried out with the purpose of reducing the prevalence of child malnutrition based on the S...

Mitigation and Adaptation addresses a wide range of economic and environment topics including global climate changes. Climate mitigation involve with permanently get rid of or reducing long term risks of climate changes to human life and the climate adaptation refers to the ability of a system or people to prepare or adjust to climate changes to mi...

ICT education is a human right in which regards every country should provide quality Information Communication Technology (ICT) education to the school student community because their skills and knowledge form the key ingredients in the development process of any country. When one implements ICT education, Software is one of the most critical ingre...

Introduction Hepatic abscess is the commonest extraintestinal manifestation of Entamoeba histolytica, the agent of amoebiasis. Mannar is a district of Northern Province in Sri Lanka where resettlement is in progress, following end of the conflict. Locally fermented sap of Palmyrah (Toddy) is a popular alcoholic drink here. Method A retrospective c...

Introduction Sri Lanka's conflict that has been escalating since January 2009 has come to an end. The resettlement process in continuing and has reached the last stages with the majority of the IDPs being resettled. Anaemia is a global public health problem affecting both developing and developed countries with major consequences for human health a...

Globalization, with its accompanying socioeconomic, demographic, and technological changes, has had a significant impact on any country's workforce and its postsecondary education. Therefore, university teachers are responsible for making a substantial contribution to this impact. The main responsibility of university teachers is to deliver methodo...

With the rapid growth of financial markets, analyzers are paying more attention on predictions. Stock data are time series data, with huge amounts. Feasible solution for handling the increasing amount of data is to use a cluster for parallel processing, and Hadoop parallel computing platform is a typical representative. There are various statistica...

The topic of data warehousing encompasses architectures, algorithms, and tools for brining together selected data from multiple databases or other information sources into a single repository called a data warehouse, suitable for direct querying and analysis. We have designed a data warehouse for the Sri Lanka education system and applied basic dat...

This Analysis was undertaken as an exercise to help understand the value of, as well as the problems associated with, Multiple Choice Question Examinations in measuring the student ability or achievement. It formed a small but by no means insignificant part of a study to investigate the feasibility as well as advantages and disadvantages of introdu...