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8th International Information Technology Conference
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Thursday 12th  October  2006

Session I: 09.00 – 10.45

09.00  

Lighting the Traditional Oil Lamp, National Anthem

09.05   

Keynote Address Triple Play Enabled Home Networking  Priyantha Undugodage SLT

Theme 1 - Language Processing and Human Computer Interaction

09.35

Keynote Address Speaker  sponsored by  Intel

10.05

On-line Sinhala Handwritten Character Recognition on Handheld Devices   M.H.P. Ranmuthugala ,G.D.N.C. Pathiragoda , K.M.J. Karunaratne ,S.H.C. Jayasundara ,Gihan Dias, A.S. Karunananda

10.25     

A KNN based Algorithm for Printed Sinhala Character Recognition
            A.R.Weerasinghe, D.L.Herath, N.P.K.Medagoda

10.45   Tea
 

Session II: 11.05 – 13.15

11.05     Keynote Address   Emerging Technologies, Sumit Kumar, U.S Robotics sponsored by PC House

Theme 2  - Web Services and Internet Applications

11.35    

Improving Your Web Services Thorough Semantic Web Techniques
              J.P. Liyanage, G.N. Wikramanayake

11.55

Connectivity Models : A New Approach to Modeling Contacts in Opportunistic Networks
  Thabotharan Kathiravelu, Arnold Peras, Nalin Ranasinghe

12.15   

Axis2-DM: A Distributed Management System for Axis2 Web Services Engine     Chathura C. Ekanayake, Mahesh De Silva, Gayan Gamage

12.35      

Querying Mediated Web Services
               Manivasakan Sabesan, Tore Risch, Gihan Wickramanayake

12.55

Lunch

 

Session III: 13.40 – 15.30 

13.40

Keynote Address
Sensor Network and Its Applications to National Security
 Leif Axelsson, Volvo Technology Corporation

Theme 3 -   Applications of ICT and Management

14.10    

A study of  attitudes towards telecommuting of Sri Lankan information technology sector employees
            Kennedy D. Gunawardana         

14.30 

E-government implementation in Sri Lanka: lessons from the UK
            Asoka Kurunananda, Vishanth Weerakkody

14.50     

Attitude Towards Privacy Amongst Young International Academics
            R. Dayarathna, L. Yngström

15.10     

“Soft Votes”: Electronic Voting System for Sri Lanka
H.U.J.S. Ariyarathne, T.M.P. Peiris. , R.M.C. Rathnayake, S.M.B.S. Semasinghe,  C.R.De Silva

15.30 Tea
 

Session IV:  15.45 – 17.25      

Theme 4 –   e-Learning

15.45  

Emotion-based Affective Cognitive Architecture for Meditative E-Learning
            H. Ekanayake, D.D. Karunarathna, K.P. Hewagamage

16.05      

The Pedagogical Structure-based Therapy  Simulation System
for Develop Child Emotional Expressions  
  
          Ajith P. Madurapperuma, P. Ravindra de Silva, Ashu Marasinghe,Stephen G. Lmbacher, Minetada Osano

16.25

Distant Learning Initiatives in Sri Lanka with specific reference to ICT based   learning – Issues and Strategies 
               D. Attygalle, G. Gamage,  U.  Jayasinghe,  V. K. Samaranayake, S.P. Wimalaratne

16.45

Hardware and Software Technologies for the Development of Multimedia Instructional Modules
             Nanda Ganesan,  K.P. . Hewagamage

17.05

An unsupervised approach to substructure discovery for learning from structured data
            Thashmee Karunaratne, Henrick Bostrom

Poster Papers  12th October 2006

1)

Seamlessly Securing Web Services Using Policies
      Mifla Mashood, Gihan Wikramanayake

2)

Towards Effective Learning Management Systems with Learner Oriented Ontology of Metadata
      S.R. Heiyanthuduwage,D. D. Karunaratne

3)

Dynamic Composition of Semantic Web Services
       O.W.H. Kumanayaka, D. N. Ranasinghe

4)

Anonymous Communication on Internet "Onion Routine" and Other Techniques
        Sachini Weerawardhana

5)

Automatic Melody Composition For Sinhala Lyrics
       Sudeepa Jayatilaka, Hemachandi Kariyawasam   

Friday 13th  October 2006

Session V:  9.00 – 10.30 

09.00  

Keynote Address: Sensor Networks – State of the Art,
Prof. Anura Jayasumana Colarado State University,USA

Theme 5 -  Robotics, Image Processing and Graphics

09.30     

Giving Robots a Sense of Feeling in Human Interaction in Ubiquitous Environment
            Janaka Chaminda Balasuriya., Chandrajith Ashuboda Marasinghe, Keigo  Watanabe and Minitada Osano

09. 50   

Edge Sensitive Frequency Domain Watermarking
             Achintya Singhal, Navita Srivastava,  Rakesh Mishra

10.10    

An Autonomous Robot for Controlling Fire in a Structured Environment
              M.L.E. Fernando, H. Ekanayake, D.N. Ranasinghe

10.30 Tea
 
Session VI:  11.00 – 12.50 
11.00   

Keynote Address: Amit Bhoraskar, RedHat

Theme 6-  Secure Computing

11.30

Security Mechanisms in Grid Computing
            Mahen Jayawardena, Severker Holmgren

11. 50 

SOW : Secure Open Webmail
             Milinda Ahan Tissera, Kasun de Zoysa

12.10 

TCP : Trusted Cheque Protocol
             Seshika Fernando,  Kasun de Zoysa

12.30 

A Deterministic Profiling Approach to Support Behaviour Anomaly Detection
             H.R.M.Fernando, V.S. Gamini Abhaya

12.50 Lunch
 
Session VII:  13.35 – 15.10  
13.35

Keynote Address
Sri Lanka – A Centre of Excellence for Product Development Outsourcing
            Shanil Fernando, Virtusa

Theme 7  -   Software Processes, Algorithms and Parallel Computing
14.05    

Reasons for Software Implementation Failures in Sri Lankan Organizations
               PPG Dinesh Asanka, Sanath Jayasena

14.25     

Automatic Music Composition with AMCTIES
             Nuwan I. Senaratna

14.45    

Impact of Processor Architectural Features on the Performance of Software Paradigms
       R Weerasuriya, D.N.Ranasinghe

15.05   

Parallelisation of Backpropagation Neural Networks on a Grid Environment
              Ramith Jayasinghe, D N Ranasinghe*, K P M K Silva

15.25

Investigating the Creation of a Complementary Paradigm for Survivable    Systems based on Systemic-Holistic Paradigm and Immune System
              Jeffy Mwakalinga, Louise Yngström

15.45 Tea
 

Session VIII:  16.15 – 17.35

16.15  

Keynote Address
Building Intelligent Information Infrastructure  Ajaz Munasiff, EMC

Theme 8 -    Intelligent Systems

16.45   

A Prototype Fuzzy Logic Based Diagnostic Expert System for Respiratory Symptoms
              S.R.Liyanage, K.S.Walgama, C.D.A.Gunasekara, I.P.M.Wickramasinghe

16.55  

Tacit Knowledge modeling in Intelligent Hybrid systems:Widening scope of Information Engineering
             D.S. Kalana Mendis ,Asoka S. Karunananda and U. Samarathunga

17. 15    

Data Mining Marriage Proposals using Self-Organising Feature Maps
              J L A I Liyanaarachchi, D N Ranasinghe, H L Premaratne

Poster Papers  13th  October 2006

1)

Affective Psychological Password for Computer Security
     H. Ekanayake,  R. Dayarathna

2)

An Extensible Image Processing Application for Analyzing Properties of Microscopic Images of Metals
W.N.T. Dharmadasa,G.S. Mudalige , R. Nimalaratne, M.I.D. Wijeyaratne,C.R. De Silva, N. Munasinghe

3)

Feasibility of Using Digital Image Processing in the Assessment of Cytology Smears
      U.A.J.Pinidiyarachchi, P.M.K.Alahakoon, N.V.I.Ranatunge

4)

Dhanurrdha: Online Synchronized multimedia deployer for LearnOrg Linux version
 H.M.W.P Herath, W.M.R.P Wijesooriya,S.J Raveendra,W.H.C.L Kumara,Shantha      Fernando, Koneshwaren Sarawanamutthu

5)

Process Patterns for Business Process Design
Ananda Edirisuriya,Prasad Jayaweera,Gihan Wikramanayake

6)

A performance evaluation of connected component labeling algorithms on grayscale digital mammograms using MATLAB  
      Rohan Dharshana Yapa, Koichi Harada

7) An Approach to Manipulate Qualitative Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Relations to Learn Rules from a Visual Scene             D. D. M. Ranasingh,  A. S. Karunananda
 

Investment:

Rs. 3600.00  per day per conference, Rs. 7200.00  per  workshop
A discount of 1/6 for those attending more than one day ( conference or workshop)
A further discount of  20% for professional members of the CSSL and 10% for professional members of IEEE, ACS, BCS, IESL,CIMA and CIM VAT  at 15%

   

 

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