Perception Enhanced Virtual Environment for Maritime Applications

This paper presents the development of a realtimeperception enhanced virtual environment for maritimeapplications which simulates real-time six degrees of freedomship motions (pitch, heave, roll, surge, sway, and yaw) underuser interactions, environmental conditions and various threatscenarios. This simulation system consists of reliable shipmotion prediction system and perception enhanced immersivevirtual environment with greater ecological validity. Thisvirtual environment supports multiple-display viewing that cangreatly enhance user perception and we developed the ecologicalenvironment for strong sensation of immersion. In this virtualenvironment it is possible to incorporate real world ships,geographical sceneries, several environmental conditions andwide range of visibility and illumination effects. This system canbe used for both entertainment and educational applications suchas consol level computer games, teaching & learning applicationsand various virtual reality applications. Especially this framework can be used to create immersive multi user environments

Fraud detection in a financial payment system

Many financial payment systems have to face fraudulent activities due to the fast-paced development of the technology. Fraud detection is essential for the proper management of fraud control. It automates the manual checking processes and helps the detection be done conveniently. It is important to research and find ways and means of proper methodologies which will help serve the purpose of fraud detection effectively. Machine Learning Approach becomes more popular and accurate compared to a rule-based approach in this scenario. This paper presents such a performance comparison among a few methods which were tested with a dataset

Achieving Sustainability of e-Government Projects in Developing Nations

In the rapidly developing world governments are thriving to become efficient and effective in the ways of delivering services to their citizens. Developing countries are funded by various bodies/developed countries to implement successful e-government projects to serve this need. However, in Sri Lanka most of the completed e-government systems are not being used by the end users, thus e-government projects’ sustainability is a major concern. In this research we analyse four e-government projects; two successes and two failures to derive factors affecting the sustainability of a project. It was identified that approach, method of deployment and user involvement are the critical success factors for e-government sustainability. We acknowledge that the approach should be bottom-up, method should be incremental and it is important to interact with all the stakeholders in each phase. With this we derive a framework for sustainability of e-government projects

ANALYSIS OF FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT IN SRI LANKAN UNIVERSITIES

In this paper we present a set of factors contributing to develop software systems within universities. We discuss; how to initiate a university project that has a commercial value, how to develop a complete software solution and the requirements to implement the system. To find the answers, case study research methodology was used. According to the results, problem identification, team, interested community, development skills and resources and sustainability. Specific success and failure factors in each of those aspects are discussed according to the Sri Lankan context. Our findings will be especially useful for academics who would like to contribute useful software systems to the nation as outcomes of their research intelligence. These factors can also be used to propose sustainable systems development methodologies for entrepreneurial universities

FOSS BASED AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SIMULATOR

This paper presents an analysis of the significance of Air Traffic Control (ATC) simulators in training, and focuses on the development of low cost, high awareness ATC simulator on a 3D virtual environment, using Free and Open Source Aircraft simulator named Flightgear. Here it has proposed a scenario based ATC officer control method covering the all three phases; tower control, approach and enroute control