2017 IRC Articles: Recent submissions
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Transition of Accordance: The Next Step of India - Sri Lanka Economic Strategy
(2017)Bilateral relationships of Sri Lanka with its’ big brother, India was old as the literal history of both countries. Each time the foreign policy cogency, external influence and the domestic political forces of both count ... -
Dynamics in Cybersecurity: Challenges to Sri Lanka`s National Security
(2017)Technological developments in today`s world which take place annually, make technology accessible to individuals and communities that were previously not able to access it. The advent of mobile technology, its accessibil ... -
Sri Lanka between Geopolitical Interests of China and India
(2017)Sri Lanka has become a point of interest in the Indian Ocean in the 21st century due to her geostrategically attractive position. Precisely, the pearl of the Indian Ocean is now in dilemma due to the conflicting interest ... -
Transboundary Implications of India and Nepal Air Pollution Policy Implementation and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
(2017)The expansion of environmental politics is a major revolution which was expanded as a form of political activity in international relations. Particularly smog with particulates can be recognised as a transboundary air po ... -
Political Polarization of the Indo-Lanka Fishery dispute and its Comprehensive Security Implications
(2017)Sri Lanka and India are two neighbouring states in the Indian Ocean, separated by the narrow strip of water that consists of the Palk Bay, and the Gulf of Mannar. The fishery dispute between the two states is a persisten ... -
Securitization of National Borders: A Case Study of Sri Lankan Border Control Measures
(2017)National border is vital for survival of a state and protecting it is important for National security. Paying lip service to security of National borders will maintain the threat level to the National borders which in tu ... -
Bottom Trawling in Palk Bay Area: Human and Environmental Implications
(2017)Sri Lanka is an island positioned in a geo strategically decisive point in the Indian Ocean. Palk bay is a shallow and narrow strip of water between Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu, Palk Bay has a rich ecosystem which is being ... -
Strategic Importance of Blue Economy to Sri Lanka and Challenges
(2017)At the COP+21 conference, the idea of blue energy and blue economy first emerged as a component of green economy. At a time when the world is moving away from the Millennium goals towards a Sustainable Development, the e ... -
Establishing a Maritime Domain Awareness Center in Sri Lanka
(2017)In this paper researcher is interested to formulate a domestic Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) Centre in Sri Lanka. MDA is situational awareness of the maritime environment. This could be achieved by gathering of real ti ... -
Strategy to Overcome Maritime Blindness: The Sri Lankan Case
(2017)The strategic location of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean not only make the island a vital connecting nod for the East-West maritime traffic, but also behaves as a centre to monitor the entire ocean space that spans to the ... -
Changing Dynamics in the Indian Ocean: Geostrategic Competition and Challenges for Sri Lanka
(2017)The Indian Ocean has become an area for geostrategic competition since there ere are strategic security groupings and contest for influence. The uni-polar world dominated by the word`s sole super power, the USA, is being ... -
Automated Garbage Collection Alert System
(2017)Waste collection has become one of the major issue in today’s world. In a country like Sri Lanka there are no proper facilities for final disposal produced by households and industries. And also, relevant authorities do ... -
Towards Email-based Workflow Automation
(2017)Modern day organisations and individuals use emails as a communication media and there exist workflows correlated to the email communication such as responding, forwarding and more complex workflows such as content analy ... -
Conceptual Approach Towards Stateful Computation Offloading in Resource Constraint Android Devices
(2017)Cyber Foraging is an approach to resolve the performance and resource limitations of small portable hand-held devices, through offloading heavy processes to nearby stationary devices called Surrogate Devices, which have ... -
An Image Processing Application for Diagnosing Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)
(2017)Leukemia, simply called “Blood cancer” is a fatal disease where the white blood cells (WBC) increases in bone marrow and peripheral blood. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is one of the most common types of leukemia a ... -
Building digitally inclusive differently abled community in Sri Lanka: an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) policy framework
(2017)Digital inclusion (DI) is an ability of individual and groups to access and use information communication technology. In the Sri Lankan context, it is a problem among disabled people. This study investigates influencing ... -
Digital Certificate Management System for eHealth and mHealth Practitioners in Sri Lanka to Secure Medical Data
(2017)eHealth and mHealth systems are getting more popular today; yet, vulnerabilities are much higher when the sensitive medical data being transferred through public networks. Therefore, it is essential to have a digital ide ... -
Communicable disease surveillance and response system
(2017)The latest studies estimate in Sri Lanka around 5 million people living in areas of dengue risk, over 32,000 infections so far in this year and more than 50 deaths. Though government of Sri Lanka has spent millions, prec ... -
Legitimate Capability of Executing the Death Penalty under Human Rights Law and Values
(2017)The debate whether the death penalty should be carried out or not has been continuing from time to time in different parts of the world. Death penalty is creating an unnatural way of ending life and it is opposite to the ... -
A Review Paper on Home Automation with Human Behaviour
(2017)Smart homes have been viewed with increasing interest by both home owners and the research community in the past few years. One reason for this development is by using modern automation technology such as Arduino in the ...