We believe and by experience, it is proven fact, that in the Sri Lankan context parents are always looking out for well educated, veterans and reputed people who are actively engaged in the education sector in Sri Lanka to advice their students’ future endeavors. Furthermore, professionals with some experience in the Australian education system who have lived in Australia are highly regarded and recognized by parents before they send their students to Australia for their higher education.
In this context, we are very happy to say, we have with us our Chairman / Managing Director of the EmpiricalMinds , Dr Prasanna Lokuge with over twenty-five years ICT experience in high growth public and private sector organizations both in Sri Lanka and abroad, completed his B.Sc. and obtained his Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Technology and M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Colombo. He thereafter obtained his PhD from Monash University, Australia specializing in Artificial Intelligent Agents.
Dr. Lokuge was awarded the ‘Gold Medal’ for becoming the ‘Batch Top’ of the Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Technology in 1993 from University of Colombo, and has also received the Postgraduate Publication Award from the Monash University in 2004 and an Australian Postgraduate Award in 2005.
In academia, he has worked as a Lecturer at the Monash University and Senior Lecturer / Lead lecturer at the Central Queensland University, Australia. He has also worked as a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of IT, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Dr. Lokuge has to his credit many book chapters and research papers published in international journals and conferences.
Dr. Prasanna Lokuge has held many key positions in many national and international business organizations in a career spanning over 25 years in the ICT industry. Experience in key positions includes CIO/Consultant in Hong Kong, France, Malaysia, Vietnam, Korea, China, Australia and Sri Lanka. IT Consultant for World Bank and ADB funded projects in Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Director IT - Sri Lanka Ports Authority, Chairman / Managing Director – EmpiricalMinds Pvt Ltd.
He is a chartered member of the British Computer Society (BCS), UK and is a member of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and the Computer Society of Sri Lanka. He is also a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI), USA and a Professional Project Manager (PMP). He has also served as a Board Director of the Project Management Institute, USA – Sri Lankan Chapter.
Dr. Prasanna Lokuge has held many key positions in the Computer Society of Sri Lanka in the past, as Chairman Exhibition committee, Treasurer, Assistant Secretary, Vice President and the President of the Computer Society of Sri Lanka during in the year 2008.
Treasurer of the Sri Lanka Computer society in the year 2001
Treasurer of the Sri Lanka Computer society in the year 2002
Assistant Secretary of Sri Lanka Computer Society in the year 2000
Chairman- Exhibition Committee, Computer Society of Sri Lanka in the year 2002
Chairman –Technical Evaluation committees for ICT projects in Sri Lanka Ports authority, 2003
Chairman – Steering committee of Information Technology in Sri Lanka Ports Authority, 2003
Member of Cabinet appointed tender boards for ICT projects in Sri Lanka Ports Authority, 2000 -2003
Member of National EDI committee, Sri Lanka, 2002-2003
Chairman of SEARCC National School Software competition committee – Sri Lanka – 2000
Member of the National Y2K Task Force – 1999
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE - LECTURING EXPERIENCE
Plymouth University – (Conducted by NSBM)
From: 2013-2014
Position: Senior Lecturer
Subjects – Software Engineering for B.Sc./M.Sc. Programmes
Buckinghamshire New University (Conducted by ESOFT)
From: 2011-2012
Position: Senior Lecturer
Subjects – Software Engineering for B.Sc. Programme
Moratuwa University, Sri Lanka
From: 2006-2007
Position: Senior Lecturer
Subjects – E-commerce for B.Sc. Programme
Monash University, Australia
From: 2003-2005
Position: Lecturer
Subjects – Trading Systems and Electronic (B2B) Commerce for M.Sc. / MBA Programmes
Central Queensland University, Australia
From: 2005-2007
Position: Lead Lecturer
Subjects – Systems Development, MIS, Systems Analysis and Design for B.Sc. and M.Sc. Programmes
Monash University, Australia
From: 2002-2004
Position: Assistant Lecturer
Subjects – Advanced Business Information Systems for B.Sc. and M.Sc. Programmes
Metropolitan University and University of London (Conducted by IDM)
From: 1991-2002
Position: Senior Lecturer
Subjects – Software Engineering, Object Oriented Analysis and Design for B.Sc. Programme
BCS PGD (Conducted by ESOFT)
From: 2012-todate
Position: Senior Lecturer
SUBJECTS – SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND MIS
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE– FACULTY OF IT MONASH UNIVERSITY – 2003-2007
Research interest/work – the use of artificial intelligent agent-based technology for scheduling, business intelligence, and optimization in non-deterministic environments. research experience of using adaptive neuro fuzzy (ANFIS) systems, genetic algorithms, hybrid DBI agent architecture, reinforcement learning, neural networks, growing self-organizing maps, fuzzy logic, and other mathematical optimization techniques and models for developing autonomous business intelligence systems
INTERNATIONAL REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters
Reinforcement learning based intelligent agents for improved productivity in container vessel berthing applications’, Book Chapter, Business Applications and Computer Intelligence, Kevin E. Voges and Nigel K.LI.Pope (Eds), Idea Group INC, USA, pp 155-184, 2006.
Journal Papers
‘Improving the Adaptability in Automated Vessel Scheduling in Container Ports using Intelligent Software Agents’, European journal of Operational Research (EJOR) on Evolutionary and Meta-Heuristic Scheduling’, V117, Issue 3, pp. 1985-2015, 2007.
An extended agent model embedded with “Intelligent-deliberation” for improved performances in a container terminal application, An International Journal of Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, V.4, Number 4, pp. 385-405, IOS Press, 2006.
Neuro Fuzzy Inference System for BDI Agents in container Terminal Operations. International journal of Applied Science and Computation, Vol. 11, No 3, pp. 135-153, 2004.
Homogeneous Neuro-BDI Agent Architecture for Berth Scheduling in Container Terminals. Journal of Marine Design and Operations, Part B6, p.17-27, IMarEST publication, London, 2004.
International Conference Papers
Reinforcement learning in Neuro BDI agent’s intentions in vessel berthing applications. In proceedings of the Advanced /information and Networking Applications (ANIA05), V1(1), pp. 681-686, IEEE computer society, Taiwan 2005.
‘An extended BDI architecture with multiple intention reconsideration ability in a vessel berthing application’, In proceedings of the FLAIRS05 conference, pp. 333-338, AAAI publication, Florida, USA, 2005.
Handling multiple events in Hybrid BDI agents with reinforcement learning: A container application’, In proceedings of the seventh international conference on enterprise information systems (ICEIS05), V2, pp. 83-90, INSTICC press, Miami, USA, 2005.
‘Shared Learning Vector Quantization in a new Agent Architecture for Intelligent Deliberation’. In proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Knowledge based Intelligent and Information Engineering System (KES2005), pp.806-813, Melbourne, Australia, Springer-Verlag publishers, 2005.
Intelligent h-BD[I] agents for optimal intention commitment modeling. In proceedings of the International conference on Information and Automation, IEEE Computer Society, Sri Lanka., 2005
Collaborative Neuro-BDI Agents in Container Terminals, In proceedings of the Advanced /Information and Networking Applications, IEEE computer society, V1,p. 155-158, Japan 2004.
BDI Agents with fuzzy associative memory for vessel berthing in container ports, In proceedings of the Sixth international conference on enterprise information systems, INSTICC press, V2,p. 315-320, Porto, Portugal 2004.
Enhancing efficiency of Container Terminal Operations using Homogenous Intelligent agents. In proceedings of the International Association of Maritime Economist. 2004 in Turkey.
Hybrid BDI Agents with ANFIS for identifying Goal success Factor in a Container Terminal. In proceedings of the third Intentional Joint Conference on Automation Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), IEEE computer society, V3, p. 1222-1223, July 2004, New York, USA. Hybrid BDI Agents with Improved learning capabilities for Adaptive Planning in a Container Terminal Application. In proceedings of IEEE/WIC/ACM International conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT), p. 120-127, September 2004, China. IEEE computer society.
The Impact of Intelligent Agent Systems on Vessel Scheduling and Turnaround. In proceedings of the 8th Shipping, Ports & Terminal Event in Asia. May, 2004. Singapore. Enhancing Efficiency of Container Terminal Operations Using Intelligent BDI Agents with Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference Systems. In proceedings of the 23rd National IT conference, p. 34-42, July, 2004, Sri Lanka.
BDI Agents using Neural Network and Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy inference system for Intelligent Planning in Container Terminals. In proceedings of the 11th International conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP-2004), p. 941-947, November, Calcutta, India, 2004. Springer LNCS, lecture notes in Computer Science, V.3316/2004, pp. 941, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, 2004.
Motivation based behaviour in Hybrid Intelligent Agents for Intention Reconsideration Process in Vessel Berthing applications. In proceedings of the 4th International conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS04), pp. 124-129, IEEE computer Society, December 2004, Japan. Intelligent Agents with Reinforcement Learning and Fuzzy logic for intention commitment modeling. In proceeding of the 6th International conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA06), IEEE computer society, China.
Implementing intention reconsideration strategies and deliberation decision of intelligent h-BD[I] agents. In proceeding of the 2nd International conference on information and automation (ICIA06), IEEE computer society, Sri Lanka.
A Novel intelligent deliberation architecture in h-BD[I] agents for improved performance in container Terminal Operations. In proceeding of the SEARCC (South East Asia Regional computer Confederation), Sri Lanka, 2006 Commitment Strategies Adopted in Intelligent Agents for Improved Performance in complex Business Scenarios. In proceeding of the 25th National Information Communication Conference (NITC2007), Sri Lanka, 2007
Adaptive Neuro fuzzy based intelligent tool for contingency reserve analysis in project management. In proceeding of the National Information Technology Conference (NITC2008), Sri Lanka, 2008. Adoption of Fuzzy intelligent architecture for quantitative risk analysis in deriving the likelihood of project success factor. In proceeding of the National Information Technology Conference (NITC2010), Sri Lanka, 2010.
Electronic National Single Window implementation in Sri Lanka. In proceeding of the National Technology Conference (NITC 2018), Sri Lanka 2018. Electronic Trade Facilitation Tools for improved services in Export & Imports in Sri Lanka. In proceeding of the 2018 Chengdu Dialogue on South Aisa (Pan-Asia) Production Capacity Cooperation conference, China , 2018
