Norman Paton

Norman Paton
Born	Norman William Paton
Fields	Information integration Query processing[1] Life science data management[2][3][4][5]
Institutions	University of Manchester Heriot-Watt University University of Aberdeen
Alma mater	University of Aberdeen
Thesis	A Prolog implementation of an object-oriented database system (1989)
Doctoral advisor	Peter M. D. Gray[6][7]
Doctoral students	Muhammad Ali[8] Christian Brenninkmeijer[9] Guo Chenjuan[10] Klitos Christodoulou[11] Duhai Alshukaili[12] Karen Eilbeck[13][14][15] Kwanchai Eurviriyanukul[16][17] Ixent Galpin[18] Anastasios Gounaris[19] Fernando Gutierrez Cornelia Hedeler[20][21] Lu Mao[22] Ruhaila Maskat[23] Paulo Pinheiro Da Silva[24][25] Pedro Sampaio[26] Sandra Sampaio[27] Alan Stokes[28] Neil Swainston[29][30]
Known for	Active databases[1] Object databases
Website www.cs.man.ac.uk/~norm www.manchester.ac.uk/research/norman.paton

Norman William Paton is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in the UK^{[5][31][32][33][34]} where he co-leads the Information Management Group (IMG)^[35] with Carole Goble.

Education

Paton was educated at the University of Aberdeen where he was awarded 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^[36][37][38] supervised by Peter Gray.^[6]

Research

Paton's research interests are currently in distributed information management including dataspaces,^[10][39][40]query processing in Wireless sensor networks,^[41][42] autonomic computing, workflow management, and data management for systems biology.^[30][43] His research has been funded by the EPSRC,^[44] the BBSRC^[45] and the European Union.

Paton has also been active in the Open Grid Forum (OGF),^[46] Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI)^[3] and the Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology (MCISB).^[45]

Teaching

Paton has taught on several database courses at undergraduates and postgraduate level.

Administration

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 2008 to 2011.

References

1. Paton, Norman W.; Díaz, Oscar (1999). "Active database systems" (PDF). ACM Computing Surveys. 31: 63. doi:10.1145/311531.311623.
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. 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.
5. Norman Paton's publications indexed by Google Scholar
6. 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. Ali, Muhammad Akhtar (2002). Incremental maintenanace of materialized views in object-oriented databases (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
9. Brenninkmeijer, Christian (2010). Querying sensor networks: requirements, semantics, algorithms and cost models (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
10. Guo, Chenjuan (2011). Inferring Information about Correspondencies between Data sources for Dataspaces (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
11. Christodoulou, K.; Paton, N. W.; Fernandes, A. A. A. (2013). "Structure inference for linked data sources using clustering". Proceedings of the Joint EDBT/ICDT 2013 Workshops on - EDBT '13. p. 60. doi:10.1145/2457317.2457328. ISBN 9781450315999.
12. Alshukaili, D.; Paton, N. W.; Fernandes, A. A. A. (2015). "Interpreting Linked Data Search Results Using Markov Logic" (PDF). Proceedings of the Workshops of the {EDBT/ICDT} 2015 Joint Conference(EDBT/ICDT), Brussels, Belgium, March 27th, 2015. pp. 221–228.
13. Eilbeck, Karen (2000). Technology for the post genome sequencing era: an object oriented database for protein-protein interactions (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
14. Paton, N. W.; Khan, S. A.; Hayes, A.; Moussouni, F.; Brass, A.; Eilbeck, K.; Goble, C. A.; Hubbard, S. J.; Oliver, S. G. (2000). "Conceptual modelling of genomic information". Bioinformatics (Oxford, England). 16 (6): 548–557. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/16.6.548. PMID 10980152.
15. Eilbeck, K.; Brass, A.; Paton, N.; Hodgman, C. (1999). "INTERACT: An object oriented protein-protein interaction database". Proceedings / ... International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology ; ISMB. International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology: 87–94. PMID 10786290.
16. Eurviriyanukul, Kwanchai (2008). Adaptive query processing in pipelined plans (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
17. Eurviriyanukul, K.; Paton, N. W.; Fernandes, A. A. A.; Lynden, S. J. (2010). "Adaptive join processing in pipelined plans". Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Extending Database Technology - EDBT '10. p. 183. doi:10.1145/1739041.1739066. ISBN 9781605589459.
18. Galpin, Ixent (2010). Quality of service aware optimization of sensor network queries (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
19. Gounaris, Anastasios (2005). Resource aware query processing on the grid (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
20. Hedeler, Cornelia (2006). Integrated approach to mouse functional genomic data (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
21. Hedeler, C.; Wong, H.; Cornell, M. J.; Alam, I.; Soanes, D. M.; Rattray, M.; Hubbard, S. J.; Talbot, N. J.; Oliver, S. G.; Paton, N. W. (2007). "E-Fungi: A data resource for comparative analysis of fungal genomes". BMC Genomics. 8: 426. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-8-426. PMC 2242804. PMID 18028535.
22. Mao, L.; Belhajjame, K.; Paton, N. W.; Fernandes, A. A. A. (2009). "Defining and Using Schematic Correspondences for Automatically Generating Schema Mappings". Advanced Information Systems Engineering. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 5565. p. 79. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02144-2_11. ISBN 978-3-642-02143-5.
23. Maskat, R.; Paton, N. W.; Embury, S. M. (2012). "Pay-as-You-Go Ranking of Schema Mappings Using Query Logs". Data Integration in the Life Sciences. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 7348. p. 37. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31040-9_4. ISBN 978-3-642-31039-3.
24. Pinheiro Da Silva, Paulo (2003). Object modelling of interactive systems: the UMLi approach (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
25. Da Silva, P. P.; Paton, N. W. (2003). "User interface modeling in UMLi". IEEE Software. 20 (4): 62. doi:10.1109/MS.2003.1207457.
26. Sampaio, Pedro Rafael Falcone (2000). Design and implementation of a deductive query language for ODMG compliant object databases (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
27. Sampaio, Sandra de Farias Mendes (2002). A performance investigation of query processing in parallel object databases (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
28. Stokes, A. B.; Fernandes, A. A. A.; Paton, N. W. (2012). "Resilient sensor network query processing using logical overlays". Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access - MobiDE '12. p. 45. doi:10.1145/2258056.2258066. ISBN 9781450314428.
29. Swainston, Neil (2012). Systems biology informatics for the development and use of genome-scale metabolic models (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
30. 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:10.2390/biecoll-jib-2011-186. PMID 22095399.
31. List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
32. Norman Paton at DBLP Bibliography Server
33. Norman Paton's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier. (subscription required)
34. Norman Paton from the ACM Digital Library
35. Information Management Group at the University of Manchester
36. Paton, Norman William (1989). A Prolog implementation of an object-oriented database system (PhD thesis). University of Aberdeen.
37. 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. 303. p. 34. doi:10.1007/3-540-19074-0_46. ISBN 978-3-540-19074-5.
38. 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. 334. p. 280. doi:10.1007/3-540-50345-5_25. ISBN 978-3-540-50345-3.
39. 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. doi:10.1016/j.is.2013.01.006.
40. 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". Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Extending Database Technology - EDBT '10. p. 573. doi:10.1145/1739041.1739110. ISBN 9781605589459.
41. 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: 31. doi:10.1007/s10619-010-7074-3.
42. 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. 7051. p. 136. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-24577-0_15. ISBN 978-3-642-24576-3.
43. 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.
44. Grants awarded to Norman Paton by the EPSRC
45. Grants awarded to Norman Paton by the BBSRC
46. 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.