Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Helmut Schneider

Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department

CEBA 3190

Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Tel.: (225) 388-2516

 E-Mail: hschnei@lsu.edu

Education:

Free University of Berlin (Germany), Ph.D., 1978             

Technical Univ. of Darmstadt (Germany), Diploma (MS) in  Mathematics,  1974 

Professional Experience  

Louisiana State University                 Professor and Chairman                            1994-present

Louisiana State University                     Professor                                             1990-1994                

Louisiana State University                     Associate Professor                              1990-1985           

University of Arkansas                      Visiting Assistant Professor                        1984-1985                

University of North Carolina       Visiting Assistant Professor                                1983-1984                

Free University of Berlin                       Assistant Professor                                1979-1983                

Free University of Berlin                       Teaching Assistant                                  1976-1979                                  

Summary of Books and Major Publications         

                     Schneider, H., Truncated and Censored Samples from Normal Populations,  Marcel and Dekker, New York, 1986.

                                Pruett, J. and H. Schneider, Essentials of SPC in the Process Industry,  Instrument Society of America, 1992.

Peters, M., H. Schneider, and K. Tang (1988), Joint Determination of Optimal Inventory and Quality Control Policy, Management Sciences, 34, 1988, 991-1004.  

Schneider, H. and J. Ringuest (1990), Power Approximation for Computing (s,S) Policies Using Service-Level, Management Science, 36(7), 1990, 822-834.  

Schneider, H., K. Tang, and C. O'Cinneide (1990), Optimal Control of Processes Subject to Random Deterioration, Operations Research  38, 1990, 1116-1122.  

Schneider, H. and D. Rinks (1989), Analysis of a Multi-Item Inventory Problem Using Optimal Policy Surfaces, European Journal of Operational Research, 39, 1989, 180-191.  

Barbera, F., Schneider, H., and Watson, E. F., “A Condition Based Maintenance Model for a Two-Unit Series System”.  European Journal of Operational Research, No. 116,  1999, 281-290.

Schneeweiss, Ch., and H. Schneider, “Measuring and designing flexibility as a generalized service degree,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 112, No. 1, Jan 1, 1999; pg. 98-108

Schneider, H., D. Rinks, and P. Kelle (1995), "Power Approximations for a Two-Echelon Inventory System with Service Levels," Production and Operations Management, Vol.4, No. 4 (1995), pp. 381-400.  

Schneider, H., K. Tang, and C. O'Cinneide (1988), Optimal Control of a Production Process Subject to AOQL Constraint, Naval Research Logistics, 35, 1988, 383-395.  

Schneider, H. and K. Tang (1990), Procedures for the Two-Stage Group Testing Problem Based on Prior Distribution and Cost, Technometrics 32, 1990, 397-406.  

Schneider, H.(1989), Variable Sampling Plan Based on Censored Samples, Technometrics, 31,1989, 199-206.  

Schneider, H. and L. Weissfeld, Inference Based on Type II Censored Samples, Biometrics, 42, 1986, 531‑536.

Schneider, H. and L. Weissfeld, Estimation in Linear Models with Censored Data, Biometrika, 73, 1986, 741‑745.

Schneider, H., Simple and Highly Efficient Estimators for Censored Normal Samples, Biometrika, 71, 1984, 412‑414.  

                    Articles in Operations Management

Schneider, H. (1978), Methods for Determining the Reorder Point of an (s,S) Policy When a b Service Level Is Specified, Operational Research Quarterly, 29, 1978, 1181-1193.  

Schneider, H.(1979) , The Service Level in Inventory Control Systems, Journal of Engineering and Process Economics, 3, 1979, 341-348.

Schneider, H (1979), Service-Levels for Sporadic Demand, OR Spectrum, 1, 1979, 115-122.  

Schneider, H.(1981), The Effects of Service Levels on Order-Points or Order-Levels in Inventory Models, International Journal of Production Research, 19, 1981, 615-631.

Alscher, J. and H. Schneider (1982), Resolving a Multi-Item Inventory Problem with Unknown Cost, Engineering Costs and Production Economics, 6, 1982, 9-15.

Peters, M., H. Schneider, and K. Tang (1988), Joint Determination of Optimal Inventory and Quality Control Policy, Management Sciences, 34, 1988, 991-1004.  

Schneider, H. and J. Ringuest (1990), Power Approximation for Computing (s,S) Policies Using Service-Level, Management Science, 36(7), 1990, 822-834.  

Schneider, H. and D. Rinks (1989), Analysis of a Multi-Item Inventory Problem Using Optimal Policy Surfaces, European Journal of Operations Research, 39, 1989, 180-191.  

Schneider, H. and Dan B. Rinks (1991), Empirical Study of a New Procedure for Allocating Safety Stock in a Wholesale Inventory System, International Journal of Production Economics (24), 1991, 181-189.  

Schneider, H., D. Rinks, and P. Kelle (1995), "Power Approximations for a Two-Echelon Inventory System with Service Levels," Production and Operations Management, Vol.4, No. 4 (1995), pp. 381-400.  

Schneider, H. and E. Watson (1997), “ An Analysis of warehouse distribution strategies. A case study.” OR Spectrum, Vol. 119 (1997), No. 2, 196-175.  

Schneeweiss, Ch., and H. Schneider, “Measuring and designing flexibility as a generalized service degree,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 112, No. 1, Jan 1, 1999; pg. 98-108.

Chun, Y.H., Plante, R., and Schneider, H. (2002). “Buying and Selling an Asset Over the Finite Time Horizon: A Non-parametric Approach.”  European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 136, no. 1, 106-120.  

         Articles in Information Systems

Watson, E.F. and Schneider, H.(1999) "Using Enterprise Systems in IS Education", Communications of the Association for Information Systems, (1999), Volume 1 Article 9, February.  

Ghosh, D., H. Schneider and P. Dardeau (1993) , Electronic Document Control for ISO 9000, Quality Engineering, Vol. 5 (4), 1993, pp. 627-646.  

Binshan, Lin and H. Schneider, Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing:  An Overview and Research Perspective, Human Systems Management 13 (1994), 283-293.  

Articles in Statistical Quality Management

Schneider, H., K. Tang, and C. O'Cinneide (1990), Optimal Control of Processes Subject to Random Deterioration, Operations Research  38, 1990, 1116-1122.  

Peters, M., H. Schneider, and K. Tang (1988), Joint Determination of Optimal Inventory and Quality Control Policy, Management Sciences, 34, 1988, 991-1004.  

Schneider, H., K. Tang, and C. O'Cinneide (198), Optimal Control of a Production Process Subject to AOQL Constraint, Naval Research Logistics, 35, 1988, 383-395.  

Schneider, H. and K. Tang (1990), Procedures for the Two-Stage Group Testing Problem Based on Prior Distribution and Cost, Technometrics 32, 1990, 397-406.  

Schneider, H.(1989), Variable Sampling Plan Based on Censored Samples, Technometrics, 31,1989, 199-206.  

                        TT   Tang ,K.. and H. Schneider (1990), Cost Effectiveness of Using a Correlated Variable in a Complete Inspection Plan when Inspection Error is Present, Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 37, 1990, pp. 893-904.  

Wa                         Kasperski, W. J. and H. Schneider (1997) “Using Normal Probability Plots to Determine Significant Factors in Unreplicated Designs, Quality Engineering, (1997), Vol.9 No. 3, 449-456.

Barbera, F., Schneider, H., and Watson, E. F., “A Condition Based Maintenance Model for a Two-Unit Series System”.  European Journal of Operational Research, (1999)  No. 116,  p. 281-290.

                              Schneider, H. and Barbera, F. “ Application of Order Statistics to Sampling Plans for Inspection by Variables,” Handbook of Statistics, Val. 17, 497-511.  

Kasperski, W. J.,  H. Schneider and K. L. Johnson (1995) A Computer Program for Finding Significant Effects for Unreplicated Factorials Using the n Smallest Contrasts, Journal of Quality Technology, (1995) Vol. 27, No. 4, 377-386.

Barbera, F., P. Kelle, and H. Schneider, “A Condition Based Maintenance Model with Exponential Failures and Fixed Inspection Intervals”, Journal of Operational Research Society, 47 (1996) pp. 1037-1045.  

Schneider, H., William J. Kasperski, Thomas Ledford, and Walter Kraushaar Control Charts for Skewed and Censored Data Quality Engineering, Quality Engineering, 1995, 8(2) 263-274.

Schneider, H., James Pruett, and Cliff Legrange, Uses of Process Capability Indices in the Supplier Certification Process, Quality Engineering, 1995, 8(2), 225-235.  

Schneider, H. and J. Pruett, Control Chart Issues in the Process Industry, Quality Engineering, Vol. 6 (4), 1994, 347‑374.  

Harel, M., C. A. O'Cinneide, and H. Schneider, (1995) Asymptotics of the Sample Renewal Function Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, (1995) 189, 240-255.

Schneider, H. and C. O'Cinneide, Design of Cusum Control Charts Using Narrow Limit Gauges, Journal of Quality Technology, 19, 1987, 63-68.  

Schneider, H., J. Pruett, and L. Magee, Reduction of Variation in the Gasoline Blending Process‑A Case Study, ISA Transactions, 1993, 32 355‑366.

Harel, M., C. A. O'Cinneide and Helmut Schneider, Asymptotic Behavior of the Sample Renewal Function, C. R.  Acad. Sci Paris, 1993, t. 315, Series I, 465‑468.

Lin, H. B. and H. Schneider, A Framework for Measuring Quality in Health Care, International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 5, (6), 1993, pp. 25‑29.c.

Vickroy, V. V., H. Schneider, and R. F. Abbott, The Separation of SEC Curves of HDPE into Flory Distributions, Journal of Applied Polymer, Vol 50, 1993, 551‑554.

Helmut Schneider, William J. Kasperski, and Lisa Weissfeld, Finding Significant Effects for Unreplicated Fractional Factorials, Journal of Quality Technology, Vol. 25 (1), 1993, pp. 18‑27.

Schneider, H., Yiwen Hui and James Pruett, Control Charts for Environmental Data, Frontiers in Statistical Quality Control, Vol. 4, 1992, pp. 216‑226.

Schneider, H., B. Lin, and K. Tang, Comparison of Renewal Function  Estimators for Censored Data, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Vol. 42, 1992, pp. 125-135.

Kelle, P. and H. Schneider, Extension of a Reliability-Type Inventory Model to Just-in-Time Systems, International Journal of Production Economics, 26, 1992, pp. 319-326.

Schneider, H. and P. Wilrich, A New System for Switching Rules for ISO 3951 Using CUSUM Methods, Frontiers in Statistical Quality Control, 2, 1984, 146-159.  

Articles in Probability and Statistics

Schneider, H. and L. Weissfeld, Inference Based on Type II Censored Samples, Biometrics, 42, 1986, 531‑536.

Schneider, H. and L. Weissfeld, Estimation in Linear Models with Censored Data, Biometrika, 73, 1986, 741‑745.

Schneider, H., Simple and Highly Efficient Estimators for Censored Normal Samples, Biometrika, 71, 1984, 412‑414.  

O'Cinneide, C. and H. Schneider (1987), An Algorithm for Computing the Convolution of Poisson, Negative Binomial and Geometric Distributions, Operations Research, 35, 1987, 445-449.  

Weissfeld, L. and H. Schneider, Influence Diagnostic for the Normal Linear Model with Censored Data, Australian Journal of Statistics, 32(1), 1990, 11‑20.

Schneider, H., B. Lin, and C. O’Cinneide, Comparison of Nonparametric Estimators for the Renewal Function, Applied Statistics, 39, 1990, 55‑61.             

Weissfeld, L. and H. Schneider, Influence Diagnostics for the Weibull Model Fit to Censored Data, Statistics and Probability Letters, 9, 1990, 67‑73. 

Schneider, H. and L. Weissfeld, Confidence Intervals for the Parameters of a Weibull Distribution Based on Censored Samples, Journal of Quality Technology, 21, 1989, 179-186.

Schneider, H. and L. Weissfeld, Interval Estimation for Accelerated Life Tests Based on the Lognormal Model, Journal of Quality Technology, 21, 1989, 24-31.

Tang, K. and H. Schneider, Selection of the Optimal Inspection Precision Level for a Complete Inspection Plan, Journal of Quality Technology, 20, 1988, 153-156.

Weissfeld, L. and H. Schneider, Inference Based on the Buckly-James Procedure, Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods, 16, 1987, 1773-1788.

Tang, K. and H. Schneider, The Effect of Inspection Error on a Complete Inspection Plan, IIE Transactions, 19, 1987, 421-428.

Schneider, H., The Performance of Variables Sampling Plans When the Normal Distribution is Truncated, Journal of Quality Technology, 17, 1985, 74‑78.

Carroll, R. and H. Schneider, A Note on Levene's Test for Equality of Variances, Statistics and Probability Letters, 3, 1985, 191‑194.

Other Articles

Alscher, J. and H. Schneider, The Joint Determination of Service-Level, Handling and Capital in a Multi-Item Inventory Problem, Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, 51, 1981, 179‑200.

Alscher, J. and H. Schneider, The Relationship of Service-Level and Stockout Cost, Kostenrechnungspraxis, 6, 1982, 257‑271.

Schneider, H., Service-Levels for (s,S)-Inventory Policies, Zeitschrift für Operations Research, 22, 1978, 119‑144.

Schneider, H. and P. Wilrich, The Robustness of Sampling Plans for Inspection by Variables, Computational Statistics, 1981, 281‑295.

Schneider, H. and P. Wilrich, A Numerical Analysis of Sampling Plans Based on Prior Distribution and Cost, Frontiers in Statistical Quality Control, 3, 1986, 36‑51.

Schneider, H. and K. Waldmann, K., Cost Optimal Multistage Sampling Plans, Frontiers in Statistical Quality Control, 2, 1984, 32‑39.

Frankfurter, G. M., and H. Schneider, Some Further Examination of the Event Study Method of Analysis, in Research in Finance, Volume 13, 1995, 275-295.

Schneider, H. Louisiana Traffic Records Data Report  for 1994- 2006.

Grants and Contracts

            Grant from the German National Science Foundation,  1983-1984.

            LEQSF 1996

            LEQSF (Walsh, Ives, Schneider)  1997

            LHSC and LADOTD Analysis of traffic data: (1994- present)

            LADOTD: In-house versus consultant engineering design cost (Wilmot, Schneider, Deis)

Present areas of research interest

Data mining of traffic crash information