Peter Keenan

Dr. Peter Keenan; Subject Area Head in the Management Information Systems group in the Business School at University College Dublin.

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I am a Subject Area Head in the Management Information Systems group in the Business School at University College Dublin. My primary research areas include decision support for routing problems, the integration of geographic information systems (GIS) and decision support systems and the use of GIS in business.

I am a member of the EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems , the IFIP 8.3 Working Group on DSS, the AIS SIGGIS and the AIS SIGDSS. I am an affiliate of the Irish National Centre for Geocomputation. I am an ISWorld volunteer and formerly maintained the ISWorld Ireland page and the ISWorld Spatial Decision Support Systems page.

Profile on www.ucd.ie.


Address Details
	Management Information Systems	Phone: +353-1-716-4727
	UCD Quinn School of Business	Fax: +353-1-716-4783
	University College Dublin	Email Peter.Keenan@ucd.ie
	Belfield ,
	Dublin 4	Location 53º 18´ 15.20N ; 6º 13´ 13.25W
	Ireland

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Research Interests

Geographic Information Systems(GIS) store geographic data, which is of interest in many business applications. GIS techniques are relevant to routing problems because of the detail of street networks and large amounts of information that are associated with GIS database. GIS techniques for manipulating information can form the basis of Spatial Decision Support Systems for a number of areas, including routing.

Spatial Decision Support Systems have many applications in business and many interesting research questions exist as to how this technology can best be integrated with mainstream IS.

Arc Routing problems represent those problems where demand/supply is associated with arcs rather than points. This class of problem has been less thoroughly researched than traditional point based routing problems. Classic arc routing problems are postal delivery, refuse collection, meter reading, street sweeping and snow clearance. Decision support for decision makers presented with arc routing problems requires detailed information on street networks. In addition to their information requirements these problems are frequently characterised by relatively infrequent decisions, for example postal routes or refuse collection routes are fairly static. Therefore decision makers will be concerned with large areas, a small subset of which is altered as part of each route change. Decision support for these problems therefore requires access to geographic data and GIS techniques are of considerable use.