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 ...

Recently, developments and extensions of quadrature inequalities in quantum calculus have been extensively studied. As a result, several Simpson’s Newton’s estimates are examined order to explore different directions studies. The main motivation this article is the development variants Simpson–Newton-like by employing Mercer’s convexity context calculus. results also give new bounds for through...

Mizue Moriya, Yi-Hsuan Ho, Anne Grana, Linh Nguyen, Arrissa Alvarez, Rita Jamil, M. Leigh Ackland, Agnes Michalczyk, Pia Hamer, Danny Ramos, Stephen Kim, Julian F. B. Mercer, and Maria C. Linder Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Institute for Molecular Biology and Nutrition, California State University, Fullerton, California; and Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Deakin Univ...

We present an extensive empirical comparison of several smoothing techniques in the domain of language modeling, including those described by Jelinek and Mercer (1980), Katz (1987), and Church and Gale (1991). We investigate for the first t ime how factors such as training data size, corpus (e.g., Brown versus Wall Street Journal), and n-gram order (bigram versus trigram) affect the relative pe...