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Clive Emberey
Biographical Details
Clive has a degree in Civil Engineering (UMIST 1975), is a Chartered Engineer in two disciplines and
is a Member of the British Computer Society. After achieving chartered status, Clive moved out of mainstream
engineering into applied computer technology. In 1982 he moved to the University of Sheffield to set up a
company to exploit software developments within the Engineering and Science Faculties. In 1986 Clive joined
ATS, a solid modelling company, primarily involved in providing intelligent CADD systems. In 1988 Clive formed
SIG Partnership. SIG undertook much of the early software implementation of the PCPACK toolset.
In 1999 Epistemics acquired SIG and Clive was made a director of Epistemics.
Technical Background
Clive has worked on a number of projects that have used knowledge engineering techniques and PCPACK to
deliver software and web-based implementations. The earliest of these was for Corus, then British Steel,
on VULCAN, a pre and post-processor for investigation of the second order effects of fire in structural frames.
VULCAN is now the industry-standard tool for fire analysis. The project involved taking a complex analytical
program and making it assessable to a wide range of users. The processors were directly implemented as
knowledge bases built using an early version of PCPACK. Knowledge acquisition sessions using PCPACK were undertaken with
the authors of the analytical software and end-user engineers.
Technical Expertise
Clive Emberey is a Director of Epistemics and Board Security Officer.
He has provided knowledge-engineering expertise as a partner on many projects including WIVISS I & II,
ATR and SSEDTA I & II, ESDEP, and SteelCAL. These have been CBT projects funded by the European Union
to deliver courseware for end users with differing requirements, skill levels and first languages.
Generic tools were developed from sessions with the experts to allow them to produce structured and
attributed material themselves. The final system is web-based, using XML and Java to deliver
appropriate material to match a user's model. The techniques used separated the knowledge mark-up
from the text and has allowed the material to be delivered in many European languages driven via the
same knowledge base. Clive has excellent programming and web technology skills which he has used in
conjunction with his knowledge engineering ability to provide solutions for TrafficMaster's control
centre, Corus's interactive product catalogue and Scottish Amicable's training.
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