Norman Paton

Norman Paton
MAE
Norman Paton speaking in the Kilburn Building at the University of Manchester
Born
Norman William Paton
Alma materUniversity of Aberdeen
Known for
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisA Prolog implementation of an object-oriented database system (1989)
Doctoral advisorPeter M. D. Gray[6][7]
Websiteresearch.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/norman.paton

Norman William Paton MAE is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in the UK.[8][5][9][10][11] Previously he co-lead the Information Management Group (IMG) with Carole Goble[12] and served as head of department from 2008 to 2011.[13]

Education

Paton was educated at the University of Aberdeen where he was awarded a first class Bachelor of Science degree in Computing Science in 1986 and a PhD in 1989 for research into object-oriented database systems using Prolog[14][15][16] supervised by Peter Gray.[6]

Research and career

Paton's research interests are in distributed information management including dataspaces,[17][18][19] query processing in wireless sensor networks,[20][21] autonomic computing, workflow management, and data management for systems biology.[22][23] His research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC),[24] the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)[25] and the European Union.

Paton has also been active in the Open Grid Forum (OGF),[26] Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI)[3] and the Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology (MCISB).[25]

Paton has taught on several database courses at undergraduates and postgraduate level. Paton has had a variety of roles in the School of Computer Science including director of the research school, director of teaching strategy, and head of school from November 2008[27] to November 2011.[28]

Awards and honours

Paton was awarded Membership of the Academia Europaea (MAE) for sustained academic excellence in 2018.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b Paton, Norman W.; Díaz, Oscar (1999). "Active database systems" (PDF). ACM Computing Surveys. 31: 63–103. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.34.8207. doi:10.1145/311531.311623. S2CID 207770770.
  2. ^ Stevens, R.; Baker, P.; Bechhofer, S.; Ng, G.; Jacoby, A.; Paton, N. W.; Goble, C. A.; Brass, A. (2000). "TAMBIS: Transparent Access to Multiple Bioinformatics Information Sources". Bioinformatics. 16 (2): 184–185. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/16.2.184. PMID 10842744.
  3. ^ a b Taylor, C. F.; Paton, N. W.; Lilley, K. S.; Binz, P. A.; Julian Jr, R. K.; Jones, A. R.; Zhu, W.; Apweiler, R.; Aebersold, R.; Deutsch, E. W.; Dunn, M. J.; Heck, A. J. R.; Leitner, A.; Macht, M.; Mann, M.; Martens, L.; Neubert, T. A.; Patterson, S. D.; Ping, P.; Seymour, S. L.; Souda, P.; Tsugita, A.; Vandekerckhove, J.; Vondriska, T. M.; Whitelegge, J. P.; Wilkins, M. R.; Xenarios, I.; Yates Jr, J. R.; Hermjakob, H. (2007). "The minimum information about a proteomics experiment (MIAPE)". Nature Biotechnology. 25 (8): 887–893. doi:10.1038/nbt1329. PMID 17687369.
  4. ^ Pedrioli, P. G. A.; Eng, J. K.; Hubley, R.; Vogelzang, M.; Deutsch, E. W.; Raught, B.; Pratt, B.; Nilsson, E.; Angeletti, R. H.; Apweiler, R.; Cheung, K.; Costello, C. E.; Hermjakob, H.; Huang, S.; Julian, R. K.; Kapp, E.; McComb, M. E.; Oliver, S. G.; Omenn, G.; Paton, N. W.; Simpson, R.; Smith, R.; Taylor, C. F.; Zhu, W.; Aebersold, R. (2004). "A common open representation of mass spectrometry data and its application to proteomics research". Nature Biotechnology. 22 (11): 1459–1466. doi:10.1038/nbt1031. PMID 15529173. S2CID 25734712.
  5. ^ a b Norman Paton publications indexed by Google Scholar
  6. ^ a b Norman Paton at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. ^ Paton, N. W.; Gray, P.M.D. (1990). "Optimising and Executing DAPLEX Queries using Prolog". The Computer Journal. 33 (6): 547–555. doi:10.1093/comjnl/33.6.547.
  8. ^ Paton, Norman (2025). "Day Trips from Manchester". day-trips-from-manchester.blogspot.com.
  9. ^ Norman W. Paton at DBLP Bibliography Server
  10. ^ Norman Paton's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  11. ^ Norman Paton author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
  12. ^ "Information Management Group at the University of Manchester". img.cs.man.ac.uk.
  13. ^ a b Anon (2018). "Norman Paton". ae-info.org. Academia Europaea.
  14. ^ Paton, Norman William (1989). A Prolog implementation of an object-oriented database system (PhD thesis). University of Aberdeen. OCLC 53591715. ProQuest 301524181.
  15. ^ Gray, P. M.; Moffat, D. S.; Paton, N. W. (1988). "A Prolog interface to a Functional Data Model database". Advances in Database Technology—EDBT '88. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 303. p. 34. doi:10.1007/3-540-19074-0_46. ISBN 978-3-540-19074-5.
  16. ^ Paton, N. W.; Gray, P. M. D. (1988). "Identification of database objects by key". Advances in Object-Oriented Database Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 334. p. 280. doi:10.1007/3-540-50345-5_25. ISBN 978-3-540-50345-3.
  17. ^ Guo, Chenjuan (2011). Inferring Information about Correspondencies between Data sources for Dataspaces (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
  18. ^ Belhajjame, K.; Paton, N. W.; Embury, S. M.; Fernandes, A. A. A.; Hedeler, C. (2013). "Incrementally improving dataspaces based on user feedback". Information Systems. 38 (5): 656. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.303.1957. doi:10.1016/j.is.2013.01.006.
  19. ^ Belhajjame, K.; Paton, N. W.; Embury, S. M.; Fernandes, A. A. A.; Hedeler, C. (2010). "Feedback-based annotation, selection and refinement of schema mappings for dataspaces" (PDF). Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Extending Database Technology - EDBT '10. p. 573. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.298.3519. doi:10.1145/1739041.1739110. ISBN 9781605589459.
  20. ^ Galpin, I.; Brenninkmeijer, C. Y. A.; Gray, A. J. G.; Jabeen, F.; Fernandes, A. A. A.; Paton, N. W. (2010). "SNEE: A query processor for wireless sensor networks" (PDF). Distributed and Parallel Databases. 29 (1–2): 31–85. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.220.9109. doi:10.1007/s10619-010-7074-3. S2CID 45589.
  21. ^ Galpin, I.; Taylor, R.; Gray, A. J. G.; Brenninkmeijer, C. Y. A.; Fernandes, A. A. A.; Paton, N. W. (2011). "Executing In-network Queries Using SNEE". Advances in Databases. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 7051. pp. 136–139. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-24577-0_15. ISBN 978-3-642-24576-3.
  22. ^ Swainston, N.; Smallbone, K.; Mendes, P.; Kell, D.; Paton, N. (2011). "The SuBliMinaL Toolbox: Automating steps in the reconstruction of metabolic networks". Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics. 8 (2): 186. doi:10.1515/jib-2011-186. PMID 22095399.
  23. ^ Castrillo, J. I.; Zeef, L. A.; Hoyle, D. C.; Zhang, N.; Hayes, A.; Gardner, D. C.; Cornell, M. J.; Petty, J.; Hakes, L.; Wardleworth, L.; Rash, B.; Brown, M.; Dunn, W. B.; Broadhurst, D.; O'Donoghue, K.; Hester, S. S.; Dunkley, T. P.; Hart, S. R.; Swainston, N.; Li, P.; Gaskell, S. J.; Paton, N. W.; Lilley, K. S.; Kell, D. B.; Oliver, S. G. (2007). "Growth control of the eukaryote cell: A systems biology study in yeast". Journal of Biology. 6 (2): 4. doi:10.1186/jbiol54. PMC 2373899. PMID 17439666.
  24. ^ Grants awarded to Norman Paton by the EPSRC
  25. ^ a b Grants awarded to Norman Paton by the BBSRC
  26. ^ Antonioletti, M.; Atkinson, M.; Baxter, R.; Borley, A.; Chue Hong, N. P.; Collins, B.; Hardman, N.; Hume, A. C.; Knox, A.; Jackson, M.; Krause, A.; Laws, S.; Magowan, J.; Paton, N. W.; Pearson, D.; Sugden, T.; Watson, P.; Westhead, M. (2005). "The design and implementation of Grid database services in OGSA-DAI". Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. 17 (2–4): 357. doi:10.1002/cpe.939. S2CID 911042.
  27. ^ "News from Head of School". 16 June 2008. Archived from the original on 3 October 2019.
  28. ^ "News from Head of School". 21 February 2011. Archived from the original on 3 October 2019.
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