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Keynote Speakers

Dr. D. Nalin Ranasinghe

Senior Lecturer, University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC).

Dr. D. N. Ranasinghe obtained his PhD from University of Wales in Network Performance

Modeling. Since then he has expanded his research into distributed systems, GPU computing

and natural heuristics for combinatorial optimization. Another of his research interests is

looking at models of computing from a holistic viewpoint. He has also served as the deputy

director of UCSC.

Talk: “The Algorithm Is the Middleware”

Abstract: The emergence of very large scale fault tolerant systems is now pervasive and is used as the base of

flexible computing power for the user. The talk will discuss the evolution of this scenario and its underlying

theoretical basis which provides for rich research experience and emerging applications.

Dr. Sankalpa Gamwarige

Vice President & General Manager, Zone24x7 Director, SLASSCOM

Dr. Sankalpa Gamwarige obtained his PhD from University of Moratuwa in Wireless Sensor

Networks. Since then he has contributed immensely to the fields of Electronic Designs and

Information Technology (IT), where he works passionately and tirelessly for the betterment

of the IT and Knowledge Electronic sector in Sri Lanka through product development, research

and publications, advice to policy making for the sector growth, and capacity development.

He has also worked at companies such as Motorola Solutions and Millennium IT.

Talk: “Importance of Customer Centric R&D to Reach the $5b Target”

Abstract: Sri Lanka ICT export industry has gradually evolved over a two decades. As per the records the total

export value of this sector is about $800m by end of 2014 with an expectation to reach to $1b by end of this year.

Sri Lanka has set very ambitious targets of $5b from ICT exports by 2022. In order to reach to this target local ICT

industry has to focus on value than on cost. This will be done by existing companies focusing on Customer centric

Product/Solution Engineering and many new startup companies with lean customer centric revolutionary

products and solutions. In this back ground whether an establish product/solution company or a startup have to

add the Customer Centric R&D to their engineering culture. This has already been practiced at many SLASSCOM

member companies. In this presentation speaker will share some of these successful R&D projects and highlight

the essence of these R&D teams.

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Agenda

08:30 – 09:00 Registration

09:00 – 09:05 Welcome address

Dr. E.Y.A. Charles – General Chair/SL-SWCS’15

09:05 – 09:10 Special address

Prof. (Ms.) V. Arasaratnam – Vice-Chancellor, University of Jaffna

09:10 – 09:15 Special address

Prof. S. Sristakunarajah, – Dean/Faculty of Science

09:15 – 10:15 Keynote Speaker

Dr. D.N. Ranasinghe, Senior Lecturer

University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC), Sri Lanka.

10:15 – 10:30 Spotlight Session

10:30 – 10:50 Tea / Coffee break

10:50 – 11:05 Automated Leaf Recognition System for Plant Classification

Ms. S. Charini – University of Peradeniya

11:05 – 11:20 Web User Access Pattern Analysis on Proxy Log Data

Ms. Ann Sinthusha – University of Jaffna

11:20 – 11:35 Optimum Path Creation and Guiding System for AGV

Mr. T. Kumaran – University of Jaffna

11:35 – 11:50 Visible Light Communication System with Ambient Light Cancellation

Mr. E.S.S. Edirisinghe – University of Peradeniya

11:50 – 12:05 Question Answering using NLP

Ms. K. Kanapriya – University of Jaffna

12:05 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 14:00 Keynote Speaker

Dr. Sankalpa Gamwarige, CEO/ VP Engineering Zone24x7

14.00 – 14:15 Multi-Person Tracking Using Generic Person Detector and Particle Filter

Mr. T. Kokul – PG Student, University of Peradeniya

14:15 – 14:30 Multiclass Multi-level Text Document Classification

Ms. R. Yasotha – PG Student, University of Jaffna

14:30 – 15:45 Poster Presentations with Tea/Coffee

15:45 – 16:00 Panel Discussion

16:00 – 16:10 Awarding and Closing Ceremony

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Keynote Speakers

List of Accepted Posters

No. Title Authors

1 A Coarse-To-Fine Strategy in Recognising

Logos of Cars

S. Sotheeswaran and A. Ramanan

University of Jaffna

2 A Hybrid Decision Tree and an error

correcting technique for a Printed Tamil

Character Recognition

M. Ramanan, A. Ramanan and E.Y.A. Charles

University of Jaffna

3 A Morphological and Gradient Based

Approach to Classify Plant Leaves Using

Support Vector Machines

P. Kobikrishna and A. Ramanan

University of Peradeniya

4 Sequentially Constructing Discriminative

Codebook with Classifier Training for

Object Recognition

V. Vinoharan and A. Ramanan

University of Jaffna

5 Automated Leaf Recognition System for

Plant Classification

S. Charini, K. Anusha and W.M.B.K. Weerasooriya

University of Peradeniya

6 Bat-based Game Detection Using HOG and

SVM

T. Sopitha and S. Suthakar

University of Jaffna

7 Creating compact and Discriminative Visual

Vocabularies using Visual Bits

T. Kirishanthy and A. Ramanan

University of Jaffna

8 e-Home Service: A tool for linking service

providers and customers using USSD and

WebRTC

M. Devishanthini, P. Dharsika and K. Suwarnakumar

University of Jaffna

9 Expert System for G.C.E A/L Students Y. Kalyani and S. Mahesan

University of Jaffna

10 Identifying the Learning Patterns of the

Students in Learning Management Systems

A. Suthakaran and E.Y.A. Charles

University of Jaffna

11 Visible Light Communication System with

Ambient Light Cancellation

E.S.S. Edirisinghe, P.H.R.S.S. Karunarathna,

D.M.T.B. Dissanayake, S.A.H.A. Suraweera and

G.M.R.I. Godaliyadda

University of Peradeniya

12 Language Localisation of Tamil Using

Statistical Machine Translation

Y. Achchuthan and K. Sarveswaran

University of Jaffna

13 Location Based Rapid Rider Assigner R. Miller and M. Nifras

University of Jaffna

14 Optimum Path Creation and Guiding

System for AGV

R. Kumaran and V. Saahithyan

University of Jaffna

15 Multiclass Multi-level Text Document

Classification

R. Yasotha and E.Y.A. Charles

University of Jaffna

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16 Multi-Person Tracking Using Generic

Person Detector and Particle Filter

T. Kokul, A. Ramanan and U.A.J. Pinidiyaarachchi

University of Peradeniya

17 Question Answering Using NLP K. Kanapriya and S. Mahesan

University of Jaffna

18 Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting B. Narada, E. Gayan and G. Uthpala

University of Peradeniya

19 Single Image Fog Removal Using Fusion

Strategy

V. Thulasika and A. Ramanan

University of Jaffna

20 Towards an Expert System to Sri Lankan

Indigenous Medicinal Plants

J. Pratheeba, E.Y.A. Charles and D.A.S. Atukorale

University of Colombo School of Computing

21 Web User Access Pattern Analysis on Proxy

Log Data

A. Ann Sinthusha and E.Y.A. Charles

University of Jaffna

22 Y-BRIDGE: A Match-module to Bridge

Undergraduate Students with Academic

and industry-based Supervisors

J. Samantha Tharani and A. Ramanan

University of Jaffna

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List of Reviewers

Prof. N. Arumugam King’s College London, England.

Mr. D. Balaratnarajah Creative Solutions, Sri Lanka.

Dr. Chulantha Kulasekara Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Sri Lanka.

Dr. Dilum Bandara University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

Prof. Duc Truong Pham University of Birmingham, England.

Dr. (Mrs). K.S.D. Fernando University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

Prof. Gihan Dias University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

Dr. Guido Sanguinetti University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Dr. T. Ketheesan Vavuniya Campus, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

Prof. Mahesan Niranjan University of Southampton, England.

Prof. Mark S Nixon University of Southampton, England.

Dr. (Mrs.) U.A.J. Pinidiyaarachchi University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

Dr. Roshan G. Ragel University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

Dr. Ruvan Weerasinghe University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka.

Mr. B. Sayanthan hSenid Mobile Solutions, Sri Lanka.

Prof. Saluka R. Kodituwakku University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

Prof. Saman Halgamuge University of Melbourne, Australia.

Dr. Thrishantha Nanayakara King’s College London, England.

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Committee

General Chair

Dr. E. Y. A. Charles Department of Computer Science, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

Programme Chairs

Dr. K. Thabotharan Department of Computer Science, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

Dr. A. Ramanan Department of Computer Science, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

Finance Chair

Dr. (Mrs.) B. Mayurathan Department of Computer Science, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

Session Chairs

Mr. S. Suthakar Department of Computer Science, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

Mr. S. Shriparen Department of Computer Science, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

Web Chairs

Mr. K. Sarveswaran Department of Computer Science, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

Mr. N. Thileepan Department of Computer Science, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

Advisory Committee

Prof. Mahesan Niranjan University of Southampton, UK.

Dr. Thrishantha Nanayakara King’s College London, UK.

Prof. Gihan Dias University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

Dr. A. Ruvan Weerasinghe University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka.

Dr. Roshan G. Ragel University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

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About SL-SWCS

Sri Lanka Student Workshop on Computer Science (SL-SWCS) was founded by Dr. A. Ramanan with the support of the

then Head of the Department of Computer Science, Dr. E.Y.A. Charles and colleagues. The first workshop was held in

2011 and had around 100 participants; while being the first national-level student centered workshop that mainly

focused students in Computer Science. The workshop nurtured two keynote speakers and 18 poster presentations.

Since then SL-SWCS is conducted as a biennial workshop.

Mr. S. Mayurthan (Former CSC student, Department of Computer Science, University of Jaffna) has designed and

created the above logo for SL-SWCS.

A “Best Presentation” and “Best Poster” prize are awarded to the student participants of SL-SWCS. Each winner

receives a cash prize, which is sponsored by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne,

Australia, through Prof. Saman Halgamuge from the same Department.

Winners of SL-SWCS’11

Best Presentation Ms. Yawwani Gunawardana, University of Colombo School of Computing

Best Poster Mr. S. Sivasuthan, University of Jaffna

Winners of SL-SWCS’13

Best Presentation Mr. K. Kanarupan, University of Moratuwa

Best Poster Mr. N. Nilashan, Mr .S. Thenuzan, Mr. S. Mayooran and Ms. D. Lukshica, University of Jaffna

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