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Norman W. Paton
Researcher at University of Manchester
Publications - 347
Citations - 12361
Norman W. Paton is an academic researcher from University of Manchester. The author has contributed to research in topics: Data integration & Query language. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 337 publications receiving 11928 citations. Previous affiliations of Norman W. Paton include Birkbeck, University of London & University of Aberdeen.
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Stimuli and business policies as modelling constructs: Their definition and validation through the event calculus
Oscar Díaz,Norman W. Paton +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose the notions of stimuli and business policies as intuitive behavioural constructs, and the use of the event calculus as an appropriate formalism for building executable specifications for behavioural models.
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Speeding Up Navigational Requests in a Parallel Object Database System
TL;DR: Polar is believed to be the first parallel object-oriented database which supports this arbitrary navigation both in a client application and in functions (operations) which may be called from within declarative queries.
Search Computing and the Life Sciences
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the extent to which the search computing functionalities designed for use with search engine results may be applicable for different forms of ranked data that are encountered when carrying out data integration in the life sciences.
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Databases and the Grid: JDBC in WSDL, or Something Altogether Different?
TL;DR: This presentation both discusses core grid data access services and the wider implications and opportunities of Grids for database technologies.