Andy Arnette
Graduate Assistant
Office: Pamplin 2069
Phone: 540-231-5051
Fax: 540-231-3752
Email: aarnette
Professional Activities and
Interests:
Andrew N. Arnette is a Ph.D. Candidate
in the Department of Business
Information Technology. He has taught
courses in operations management,
quantitative methods, and computer
programming. His dissertation research
involves the development of a
comprehensive decision support system
that utilizes a geographic information
system-based approach for the discovery,
location, and selection of renewable
energy sources. Mathematical
programming techniques are used to
analyze costs, benefits, environmental
impacts, and other quantitative, and
qualitative factors in order to
determine the optimal mix of energy
sources, and the system is intended to
incorporate input from multiple
stakeholder groups with varied
interests.
His research interests include decision
support systems, geographic information
systems, environmental and agricultural
sustainability, renewable energy,
watershed management, artificial
intelligence, group decision making,
supply chain management, non-profit
organizations, and data mining.
His teaching interests include decision support systems, operations management, web development, computer programming, statistics, management science, simulation, database/systems development, information technology, and geographic information systems.
Mr. Arnette has served as a volunteer research assistant on a USDA-funded, inter-disciplinary watershed management project focused on community involvement in the planning process. This research has resulted in a paper that won the 2009 SouthEastern Decision Sciences Institute Student Paper Competition, as well as a paper that was recently accepted by Environmental Modeling & Software, a leading European journal with an impact factor of 2.659, on which he served as lead author.
Recent Scholarship:
Journal Publications
Arnette, A.N., Zobel, C., Bosch, D., Pease,
J., and Metcalfe, T., “Stakeholder Ranking of
Watershed Goals with the Analytic Hierarchy
Process: Effects of Participant Grouping
Scenarios,” accepted by Environmental Modeling &
Software, October 2009. (ISI impact factor: 2.659, ranked 8/94 in the Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications Category)
Published Conference Proceedings
Arnette, A.N. “Extending the Vector Analytical Hierarchy Process Clustering Algorithm to Create More Coherent Subgroups,” 2009 Annual Conference of the Southeast Decision Sciences Institute, Charleston, SC (February 2009).
Arnette, A.N. and King, M. “The Business
Value of Geographic Information Systems in
Business School Curriculum,” 2008 Annual
Conference of the Southeast Decision Sciences
Institute, Orlando, FL (February 2008).
Symposium Presentations
Surak, S. and Arnette, A.N., “Sustainable Development and Local Energy: Creating a Foundation for GIS and Algorithmic Determination of Citing Locations,” 2009 Virginia Tech GSA Research Symposium, Blacksburg, VA (March 2009)
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