Visiting Fellow
Uncertainty handling, identification and sensitivity assessment of environmental models
Phone: +61 2 6125 6751
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: john.norton@anu.edu.au

BA in Mechanical Sciences, Cambridge, 1962 (MA 1966); DIC, PhD in Electrical Engineering, Imperial College, London 1967. Research Engineer, English-Electric-Leo Computers, London 1962-63. Research Fellow, UK Civil Service 1967-71. Dept. of Electrical Eng., University of Tasmania 1971-79. Dept. of Electronic, Electrical & Computer Eng., University of Birmingham 1979-2004; Professor of Control Engineering 1991, Professor Emeritus 2005. Adjunct Professor, CRES, ANU 2002. Part-time Dynamic Systems Modeller (Level E), ANU 2003-08.

MIREE (Aust.) 1973-77, MIEAust. 1977-79, MIEE 1980, FIEE (now FIET) 1996, CEng.

Professional Activities

Research on identification of dynamical system models; state estimation; uncertainty handling; applications to environmental modelling, target tracking and guidance, gas-turbine modelling, process industries, automotive control and biomedicine. Currently methods for sensitivity assessment of environmental simulation models and multi-criterion model calibration. Head of Estimation and Control Group, U. of Birmingham 1985-2000. Consultant for Ferranti-Thompson Underwater Systems; British Gas; Defence Research Agency, Defford; Jaguar Cars Advanced Engineering; QinetiQ, Malvern; dstl, Farnborough; Murray-Darling Basin Commission.

Former Editor for Adaptive Control, Int. J. of Adaptive Control & Signal Processing. and editorial board member of IJACSP and IMechE J. Systems & Control Eng. Editorial board member of Env. Modelling & Software. Member of IFAC Technical Committee on Modelling, Identification & Signal Processing and Advisory Board of IFIP Working Group 5.11, Computers and Environment.

Selected Publications

J.P. Norton (2008), Algebraic sensitivity analysis of environmental models, Environmental Modelling & Software, 23(8), 963-972. doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2007-11-007

A.J. Jakeman, R. A. Letcher and J. P. Norton 2006. Ten iterative steps in development and evaluation of environmental models. Environmental Modelling and Software, 21(5): 602-614.

J.P. Norton, J. D. Brown and J. Mysiak 2006. To what extent, and how, might uncertainty be defined?, Integrated Assessment Journal, 6(1), 83-88 http://journals.sfu.ca/int_assess/index.php/iaj/article/view/9/195

J.P. Norton and F. T. Andrews 2006. Sensitivity and structure assessment of a software tool to gauge the ecological impact of flow scenarios, J. of Hydrology, 325, 325-339. Online doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2005.10.035

J.P. Norton 2005. Results to aid applications of ellipsoidal state bounds, Mathematical & Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems 11, 2 (special issue on Set-Membership Modelling of Uncertainties in Dynamical Systems, eds. F. L. Chernousko & B. T. Polyak), 209-224.