Research Publications Authored by SLIIT Staff
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Publication Open Access QPred: A Lightweight Deep Learning-Based Web Pipeline for Accessible and Scalable Streamflow Forecasting(Tech Science Press, 2026) Makumbura, R.K; Wijesundara, H; Sajindra, H; Rathnayake, U; Kumar, V; Duraibabu, D; Sen, SAccurate streamflow prediction is essential for flood warning, reservoir operation, irrigation scheduling, hydropower planning, and sustainable water management, yet remains challenging due to the complexity of hydrological processes. Although data-driven models often outperform conventional physics-based hydrological modelling approaches, their real-world deployment is limited by cost, infrastructure demands, and the interdisciplinary expertise required. To bridge this gap, this study developed QPred, a regional, lightweight, cost-effective, web-delivered application for daily streamflow forecasting. The study executed an end-to-end workflow, from field data acquisition to accessible web-based deployment for on-demand forecasting. High-resolution rainfall data were recorded with tipping-bucket gauges and loggers, while river water depth in the Aglar and Paligaad watersheds was converted to discharge using site-specific rating curves, resulting in a daily dataset of precipitation, river water level and discharge. Four DL architectures were trained, including vanilla Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), stacked LSTM, bidirectional LSTM, and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), and evaluated using Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE), Coefficient of Determination (R2), Root-Mean-Square-Error-Standard-Deviation Ratio (RSR), and Percentage Bias (PBIAS) metrics. Performance was watershed-specific, as the vanilla LSTM demonstrated the best generalisation for the Aglar watershed (R2 = 0.88, NSE = 0.82, RMSE = 0.12 during validation), while the GRU achieved the highest validation accuracy in Paligaad (R2 = 0.88, NSE = 0.88, RMSE = 0.49). All models achieved satisfactory to excellent performance during calibration (R2 > 0.91, NSE > 0.91 for both watersheds), demonstrating strong capability to capture streamflow dynamics. The highest performing models were selected and embedded into the QPred application. QPred was developed as a lightweight web pipeline, utilising Google Colab as the primary execution environment, Flask as the backend inference framework, Google Drive for artefact storage, and Ngrok for secure HTTPS tunnelling. A user-friendly front end utilises range sliders (bounded by observed minima and maxima) to gather inputs and provides discharge data along with metadata, thereby enhancing transparency. This work demonstrates that accurate, context-aware deep learning models can be delivered through low-cost, web-based platforms, providing a reproducible and scalable pipeline for hydrological applications in other watersheds and for practitioners. CopyrightPublication Embargo Comparison of ARIMA and LSTM in Forecasting the Retail Prices of Vegetables in Colombo, Sri Lanka(IEEE, 2022-12-09) Fonseka, D.D; Karunasena, AIdentification of vegetable price trends is important to make better decisions in the production and market. Due to several factors, including seasonality, perishability, an imbalanced supply-demand market, customer choice, and the availability of raw materials, vegetable prices fluctuate quickly and are highly unstable. In this study price prediction was concluded using two models ARIMA and LSTM with retail price data for Cabbage, Carrot, and Green beans in Colombo from 2009 to 2018. According to the decision criteria of RMSE and MAPE, the LSTM model is superior to the ARIMA model in predicting the retail prices of vegetables. There were no studies have focused on predicting prices with novel technology in the Sri Lankan vegetable market. Hence the results of this study can be used to build an advanced forecasting model by the government and decision-makers in agriculture in Sri Lanka.Publication Open Access Agro-Genius: Crop Prediction Using Machine Learning(https://ijisrt.com/agrogenius-crop-prediction-using-machine-learning, 2019-10) Gamage, M. P. A. W; Kasthurirathna, D; Paresith, M. M; Thayakaran, S; Suganya, S; Puvipavan, PThis paper present a way to aid farmers focusing on profitable vegetable cultivation in Sri Lanka. As agriculture creates an economic future for developing countries, the demand of modern technologies in this sector is higher. Key technologies used for this problem are Deep Learning, Machine Learning and Visualization. As the product, an android mobile application is developed. In this application the users should input their location to start the prediction process. Data preprocessing is started when the location is received to the system. The collected dataset divided into 3 parts. 80 percent for training, 10 percent for testing and 10 percent for validation. After that the model is created using LSTM RNN for vegetable prediction and ARIMA for price prediction. Finally, for given location profitable crop and predicted future price of vegetables are shown in the application. Other than the prediction, optimizing for multiple crop sowing according to the user requirements and visualizing cultivation and production data on map and graphs are also given in the application. This paper elaborates the procedure of model development, model training and model testing.Publication Embargo Exploiting Multivariate LSTM Models with Multistep Price Forecasting for Agricultural Produce in Sri Lankan Context(2020 2nd International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC), SLIIT, 2020-12-10) Navaratnalingam, S.In Sri Lanka agricultural produces possess a large supply which involves various stakeholders and thus, fluctuation of the agricultural produce prices has a direct impact on the purchasing decisions of the consumer. So, the main purpose of this study is to address the problem faced by the consumer due to poor awareness of price fluctuation which consequently astonish the consumers and hinder them from making better purchasing decisions. The research study is being specially developed in a way to adapt the Sri Lankan agricultural consumer market that is mainly based on Pettah and Dambulla trade centers. As the study we exploited different types of LSTM model with multivariate inputs along with the different combination of multistep models. The result of the study reveals that better performance was obtained for the multivariate CNN LSTM model with encoder decoder multistep model which provided an average RMSE of 19.46 Sri Lankan rupees per kilogram with an average RMSPE of 14.9%. Also, study reveals a correlation between price fluctuation and standard days of the week, where a better prediction was obtained for Monday and Tuesday with an average RMSE of 17.2 and 17.7 Sri Lankan rupees per kilogram respectively with an average RMSPE of 12.2%. Based on the input timestep considered for model, though 14 days and 21 days provided a similar result with minor variation result reveals that 14 days provided a lesser standard deviation of 0.17 than 21 days standard deviation which is 0.98.Publication Embargo PharmaGo-An Online Pharmaceutical Ordering Platform(2021 3rd International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC), SLIIT, 2021-12-09) Gamage, R.G.; Bandara, N.S.; Diyamullage, D.D.; Diyamullage, K.U.; Abeywardena, K.Y.; Amarasena, N.Pharmacy services are a paramount important pillar of health. People must keep social distance due to the COVID-19 pandemic, hence the availability of online services to give medicine is vital. Due to the quarantine measures implemented in and by various countries to prevent the virus’s breaking out and online pharmacies have become an exceptionally popular way to obtain accurate medication. Currently, in Sri Lanka, there are a few mobile applications separately owned by each of the pharmacies to provide online pharmaceutical services for their customers. But all the medicines the customer needs might not be available in a single pharmacy. PharmaGo provides with its cooperation to the customers to get medicines of his necessity at a single pharmacy, as against avoiding him roaming from pharmacy to pharmacy. Similarly, pharmacy owners can read the prescription by using image processing mechanisms and doubtlessly identify the required medicines. In addition, the system analyzes previous sales records and provides predictions regarding the future demand for drugs to the pharmacy owners. PharmaGo includes a highly trained AI-powered medical chatbot to guide the customers throughout the process. PharmaGo provides a reliable platform for both pharmacy users and pharmacists to fulfill the unique needs of pharmacy services.Publication Open Access Agro-Genius: Crop Prediction Using Machine Learning(2019-10) Gamage, A; Kasthurirathna, DThis paper present a way to aid farmers focusing on profitable vegetable cultivation in Sri Lanka. As agriculture creates an economic future for developing countries, the demand of modern technologies in this sector is higher. Key technologies used for this problem are Deep Learning, Machine Learning and Visualization. As the product, an android mobile application is developed. In this application the users should input their location to start the prediction process. Data preprocessing is started when the location is received to the system. The collected dataset divided into 3 parts. 80 percent for training, 10 percent for testing and 10 percent for validation. After that the model is created using LSTM RNN for vegetable prediction and ARIMA for price prediction. Finally, for given location profitable crop and predicted future price of vegetables are shown in the application. Other than the prediction, optimizing for multiple crop sowing according to the user requirements and visualizing cultivation and production data on map and graphs are also given in the application. This paper elaborates the procedure of model development, model training and model testing.