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In Memoriam: Paul J. Schweitzer

Author:Charla S. Kucko

Release Date: Mar 31, 2009

1941—2009

The Simon Graduate School of Business community is mourning the loss of longtime faculty member Paul J. Schweitzer, professor of operations research and computers and information systems. He was 68 years old.

“Paul had been one of the national pillars of Operations Research and Management Science and conducted research and teaching at the Graduate School of Management and then at the Simon School for over 30 years,” recalls colleague and friend Abraham (Avi) Seidmann, Xerox Professor of Computers and Information Systems and Operations Management at the Simon School.
Professor Schweitzer had research interests in performance evaluation, control and capacity analysis of computers and manufacturing systems. Most recently, he focused on analysis of flexible manufacturing systems and on identification of physical and economic bottlenecks. An expert in stochastic control theory and aggregation theory, he taught in the general area of quantitative methods in business and was working on a book on numerical algorithms.

Professor Schweitzer invented approximate mean value analysis, a widely used methodology for performance evaluation of computer and manufacturing systems and gave presentations on this and related topics. He previously conducted systems analysis for the Office of the Secretary of Defense and telecommunications analysis for the I.B.M. research division, computer science department. He was an associate editor for three journals, and a reviewer for 45 journals and academic institutions. His numerous research papers have appeared in leading journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Operations Research Letters, among several others. He earned a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics and an Sc.D. in Physics and Operations Research from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Professor Schweitzer is survived by children, Tzvia, Seth and Yoni Schweitzer. His funeral will be held on Wednesday, April 1, 2009, at Menorah Gardens in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The University flag will be lowered to half staff on Wednesday in his memory.

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