Alan Mercer (1931-2014) - A founding editor of EJOR

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Graham Rand

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Emeritus Professor Alan Mercer of Lancaster University died on July 9, following a stroke, a month short of his 83rd birthday. Alan, Bernhard Tilanus and Hans-Jurgen Zimmermann, were founding editors of the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) in 1975, and continued as editors together until they resigned in 1998. It was expected that the tripartite editorship would only last a year or two, before reverting to a single editor. It is a testament to all three that their relationship, indeed friendship, lasted for so long and achieved so much. EJOR was first proposed at the first Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO) Council Meeting held on 30 January 1975. A committee (G. Kreweras, B. Roy, C.B. Tilanus, and H.-J. Zimmermann) was formed to investigate the desirability of such a venture. Following their recommendations, on 8 May 1975 the Council decided that EJOR should be launched. It was considered important for a native-English speaker to be involved in editing a European journal, and the Secretary of EURO and former President of the Operational Research Society (ORS), Roger Eddison, invited Alan to take on the task. A motivating factor

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