The history of the Department dates back to 1980, when, by Order No. 333 of the Ministry of the Communications Equipment Industry of the USSR dated July 17, 1980, Sectoral Laboratory No. 412 was established within the Division of Cybernetic Engineering of the Institute of Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. On February 10, 1981, Department No. 205, “Microprocessor Engineering,” was established on the basis of this laboratory. The Department was headed by O. V. Palagin.
The first stage of the Department’s activity was associated with the development of domestic microprocessors and microcomputers of the “Elektronika-S5” and “Neuron” series. During this period, the scientific foundations for designing the architecture of microprocessor systems were developed, including the internal language of the microprocessor, emulation modes of operation, microprogram control systems, and the multi-operation organization of computations. These results formed the basis of the logical-informational method for designing the architecture and structure of microprocessor systems, further developed by Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine O. V. Palagin.
Subsequently, the Department’s research focus naturally expanded from microprocessor engineering to computer systems with reconfigurable architecture, ontology-driven systems, intelligent information technologies, knowledge representation tools, and adaptive organization of computational processes.
The Department’s current research activities build on established scientific traditions in the fields of evolutionary cybernetics, artificial intelligence, systems analysis, and computer science. The object of research is evolving intelligent systems characterized by variable architecture, memory mechanisms, adaptive behavior, the capacity for structural reconfiguration, and dependence on a dynamic environment.
The Department focuses primarily on developing mathematical and computational models of such systems and on studying their controllability, stability, robustness, and behavior in precritical regimes. A separate research direction concerns methods of evolutionary control, metacontrol, adaptive reconfiguration, prediction of operating regimes, and decision support under conditions of structural change and uncertainty.
Thus, the Department’s current profile represents a logical continuation of research in the architecture of computing systems, reconfigurable computing environments, and intelligent information technologies. At the same time, it is directed toward the formation of theoretical, model-based, and instrumental foundations for the study of complex evolving intelligent systems.
Official website of the Department: www.dep205.org
The Department employs 32 staff members, including one Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 5 Doctors of Sciences, and 11 Candidates of Sciences.
