Papers by Ashini Wesumperuma
Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission from activities conducted within business organisatio... more Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission from activities conducted within business organisations is a major contributor to climate change. A business process is a set of tasks and activities. At business process level, business objectives such as cost of production and time to market are managed and optimised by organisational middle level managers. At present, GHG emission related information is not available to facilitate decision making at process level to achieve GHG related objectives. For organisations to remain sustainable and decision making to be effective, managers need a holistic approach to manage and optimise GHG emissions together with other business objectives. Therefore, this research addresses the overarching knowledge gap in business process level GHG emission modelling, calculation, reporting, and optimising. The purpose of this thesis is to undertake a qualitative and quantitative examination of managing GHG emissions to achieve multi-dimensional business proc...
This overview focusses on recent developments, in the most part triggered by LHC data, aimed at t... more This overview focusses on recent developments, in the most part triggered by LHC data, aimed at the development of a reliable and complete theoretical description of high-p t physics in heavy ion collisions. Particular emphasis is placed on the understanding of the underlying in-medium dynamics as a prior to the use of high-p t observables as detailed probes of the QCD matter created in the collisions.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2009
Many Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) tend to gradually adopt Web based business applications t... more Many Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) tend to gradually adopt Web based business applications to enhance their business processes. To support this gradual adoption we need a framework that supports iterative development. Further processes that have been supported by web based business applications can change and evolve requiring applications to be changed accordingly. One way to facilitate these requirements is to empower SMEs to make changes to the web application to accommodate the required changes while using that web application. This paper presents a requirement specification tool and a Use Case model of a Web based application which can be used to specify and create the Web applications. This approach will bring the formalism to ad-hoc end-user development by including requirement specification phase. In this approach an application is viewed as a collection of packages. A package consists of related set of use cases. A scope list is developed at the package level. This will assure the required functionality of the application is completely specified. This will also provide a framework to validate the requirements. We have developed this tool in Component Based Development/ Deployment System (CBEADS). Now we are in a process of testing it.
— Enterprise-wide data is central for timely and effective planning of materials, activities, ope... more — Enterprise-wide data is central for timely and effective planning of materials, activities, operations and resources; and execution of those plans across many functional areas. Today, widespread use of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems has exacerbated a need for integrated data and visualisation of such data over many functional applications. In this research, integrated data structures are implemented in an ERP system, through a set of business transactions with visual business objects. Visualisation of integrated data structures is illustrated using a make-to-stock business scenario. It is shown that existing data of ERP systems can be integrated using additional relationships to form a foundation for simultaneous and forward planning of many components. Various business objects of integrated data structure are visually represented using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an XML based technology. SVG forms a software component within the selected ERP system with the capabi...
Green Activity Based Management (ABM) is a bottom-up approach for environmentally sustainable bus... more Green Activity Based Management (ABM) is a bottom-up approach for environmentally sustainable business process management. This approach extends Activity Based Costing (ABC) and Critical Path Method (CPM) principles for the purpose of capturing, measuring, modelling and reporting Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. The Green ABM not only looks at GHG emissions but also considers cost and time as well. Thus, this provides a holistic picture of these inter-dependent dimensions to the organizational manager for decision making. Furthermore, this research shows that Green ABM can be used to minimise the costs associated with the timing of activities while keeping other business objectives in consideration.
Currently, Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission calculations and reporting are mainly estimated at natio... more Currently, Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission calculations and reporting are mainly estimated at national, economic sector, and organisational levels. Broad brushed figures produced by high level calculations are not useful from organisational management's perspective. Further, present emission calculating initiatives have over looked Business Processes, which are important aspects within organizations. A business process is a collection of tasks and activities. Organizations function as a set of business processes. To manage GHGs efficiently, management needs to know how much GHGs were produced by each business process. Presently, GHG emissions calculated at various levels are not traced back to their origins in business processes. To date, GHGs at business process level are not investigated in great depth to support further analysis. This research proposes a tool that follows a bottom-up approach for calculating and collating GHGs according to the scopes defined by the GHG Protocol.
Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society
Purpose This study aims to explore ways to enhance competitiveness of commercial lighting industr... more Purpose This study aims to explore ways to enhance competitiveness of commercial lighting industry because of the growing digitally connected stakeholder community. Positive responses from stakeholders to recurring business interactions help build trust and formation of a community; value chains being one form of such trusted community. Because of the increasing trust, the effort to search right value chain partners diminishes, business interactions become less formal and transaction costs are reduced, thus increasing the competitiveness. Design/methodology/approach In this research, a cross-sectional study of commercial lighting industry domain in Australia was carried out, focusing on two states: New South Wales and Victoria. Based on the findings, an approach and a supporting platform to enhance competitiveness of commercial lighting industry were synthesized. Findings Based on the findings from the study, formation of such value chains, namely, “Entrusted Circles” and its two ty...
ABSTRACT Green Activity Based Management (ABM) is a bottom-up approach for environmentally sustai... more ABSTRACT Green Activity Based Management (ABM) is a bottom-up approach for environmentally sustainable business process management. This approach extends Activity Based Costing (ABC) and Critical Path Method (CPM) principles for the purpose of capturing, measuring, modelling and reporting Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. The Green ABM not only looks at GHG emissions but also considers cost and time as well. Thus, this provides a holistic picture of these inter-dependent dimensions to the organizational manager for decision making. Furthermore, this research shows that Green ABM can be used to minimise the costs associated with the timing of activities while keeping other business objectives in consideration.
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