Norman Paton

Norman Paton
Born	Norman William Paton
Alma mater	University of Aberdeen
Known for	Active databases Object databases
Website	www.cs.man.ac.uk/~norm www.manchester.ac.uk/research/norman.paton
Scientific career
Fields	Information integration Query processing Life science data management
Institutions	University of Manchester Heriot-Watt University University of Aberdeen
Thesis	A Prolog implementation of an object-oriented database system (1989)
Doctoral advisor	Peter M. D. Gray
Doctoral students	Muhammad Ali Christian Brenninkmeijer Guo Chenjuan Klitos Christodoulou Duhai Alshukaili Karen Eilbeck Kwanchai Eurviriyanukul Ixent Galpin Anastasios Gounaris Fernando Gutierrez Cornelia Hedeler Lu Mao Ruhaila Maskat Paulo Pinheiro Da Silva Pedro Sampaio Sandra Sampaio Alan Stokes Neil Swainston

Norman William Paton is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in the UK where he co-leads the Information Management Group (IMG) with Carole Goble.

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 supervised by Peter Gray.

Paton's research interests are currently in distributed information management including dataspaces,query processing in Wireless sensor networks,autonomic computing, workflow management, and data management for systems biology. His research has been funded by the EPSRC, the BBSRC and the European Union.