 Journal
of Automation and Information Sciences
A well-known scientist in the field of theory and applications of control
systems — Vsevolod M. Kuntsevich —
Professor, Academician of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
Director of the Space Research Institute of National Academy of Sciences of
Ukraine and National Space Agency of Ukraine
After graduating from the Kiev Polytechnical Institute Vsevolod M. Kuntsevich
worked at the research institutions of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
completed thesis for the Candidate of Science (Ph.D) degree. During these years
Vsevolod M. Kuntsevich realized research in the theory and application of extremal
control systems.
After joining the Institute of Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences of the
Ukrainian SSR he completed thesis for the Doctor of Science degree in engineering
and became Head of department of Discrete Control Systems. A major part of
research of this period was concerned with development of fundamentals of the
theory of the special class nonlinear control systems with pulse-frequency
modulation. The obtained results were included into the monograph which was
the first work in this field in the world literature.
Scientific works of Vsevolod M. Kuntsevich in 1973–1978 dealt with the
synthesis problem of control systems by means of Lyapunov functions.
Since 1979 Vsevolod M. Kuntsevich and his followers have developed a new approach
to synthesis of adaptive control systems based on methods of solving problems
of parametrical identification giving guaranteed estimates and also on new
algorithms of solving optimal control problems under uncertainty conditions.
Robustness was also studied in the the monograph published by Springer-Verlag
in 1992.
In 1988 Vsevolod M. Kuntsevich was elected Corresponding Member of Academy
of Sciences of Ukraine. The same year he became Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Avtomatika” (since
1994 “Problemy upravleniya i informatiki”).
In 1992 Vsevolod M. Kuntsevich was elected Academician of National Academy
of Sciences of Ukraine.
In 1995 Vsevolod M. Kuntsevich became Deputy Director of V.M. Glushkov Institute
of Cybernetics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and in May 1996 he
headed the Space Research Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
and National Space Agency of Ukraine. As a director Vsevolod M. Kuntsevich
directed his activity on making the Institute a leading institution of space
science in the Ukraine, development of basic and applied research and its coordination
in accordance with main directions of research in the National Space Program
of the Ukraine.
For a long time Vsevolod M. Kuntsevich has been a member of a National Committee
of the Ukrainian Automatic Control Association, the national division of International
Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). Vsevolod M. Kuntsevich is the author
of more than 250 scientific papers, including 7 monographs, initiator and chairman
of Ukraininan conferences on automatic control. Vsevolod M. Kuntsevich founded
a scientific school in the field of discrete systems in the Ukraine: more than
30 Candidates of Science, 9 Doctors of Science completed their theses under
his supervision. For more than 25 years he delivered lectures in control theory
in Kiev Polytechnical Institute. Vsevolod M. Kuntsevich is a permanent participant
and lecturer of the World Congresses of IFAC.
As a member of collective of authors of the first in the world “Encyclopedia
of cybernetics” Vsevolod M. Kuntsevich was awarded the State Prize of
Soviet Union in the field of science and technology. In 1991 for his works
on the control theory he has been honored with the title Laureate of the State
Prize of Ukraine.
“
Problemy upravleniya i informatiki” (former title ‘Avtomatika’)
The Journal is the only periodical in Ukraine publishing papers of fundamental
and applied direction within a wide scope of problems of automatic control
and informatics for more than 40 years (was founded in 1956)
Subjects covered in: Problems of controlled systems dynamics, methods of identification
and adaptive control, optimal control and optimization methods, mathematical
simulation and study of complex controlled systems, general problems of space
exploration, control of physical objects and technical systems, control and
optimization of systems with distributed parameters, methods of control and
estimation under uncertainty conditions, qualitative methods in controlled
systems theory, information processing methods, space information technologies
and systems, technical tools for measurements and control, space monitoring,
economic and management systems, problems of information protection. The papers
of scientific conferences and workshops on automatic control are published
on a regular basis.
The Journal is published under creative support of Ukrainian Association on
Automatic Control; National Space Agency of Ukraine; Academic and branch scientific
institutions; Leading higher educational institutions of Ukraine and of former
Union republics; Scientists and specialists abroad.
Editor-in-chief — Professor Director of the Space Research Institute
of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and National Space Agency of Ukraine,
President of the Ukrainian Association on Automatic Control, Academician of
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Vsevolod M. Kuntsevich.
Journal ‘Problemy upravleniya i informatiki’ is completely republished
in the English by publishing house BEGELL HOUSE, INC. (USA) under the title “Journal
of Automation and Information Sciences”.
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