2025, issue 1, p. 5-11
Received 15.03.2025; Revised 24.03.2025; Accepted 25.03.2025
Published 28.03.2025; First Online 30.03.2025
https://doi.org/10.34229/2707-451X.25.1.1
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Academician V.S. Mikhalevich and His Department
Vasyl Biletskiy, Viktor
Kuzmenko * 
, Greta Chikrii
V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of the NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv
* Correspondence: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
March 10, 2025, marks the 95th anniversary of the birth of Academician Volodymyr S. Mikhalevich, a distinguished researcher who shared a long and productive collaboration with Victor M. Glushkov.
Volodymyr S. Mikhalevich graduated from Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University, the Faculty of Mechanics & Mathematics. In 1956, he received his PhD in Mechanics & Mathematics for his thesis on the Bayesian Procedures’ Application for Sequential Decision-Making in Statistical Control Problems. From 1955 to 1958, he worked as a senior lecturer at the Department of Mathematical Analysis and Probability Theory, in the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the University, where he taught courses on Game Theory & Sequential Statistical Analysis, which were seen as groundbreaking at the time.
In 1958, Victor M. Glushkov invited Volodymyr S. Mikhalevich to lead a Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics group of experts at the Computing Center of the Academy of Sciences, the Ukrainian SSR, and to engage in Electronic Device Reliability and Operations research.
In 1960, a Department for Production Management Automated Systems was organised at the Computing Center with Volodymyr S. Mikhalevich as its Head. Soon, the department became known as an Economic Cybernetics Department focusing on the optimal planning theory and its applications, operations research, complex objects and systems design, and process automation in industrial production and transport.
The Sequential Analysis of Variants method that V.S. Mikhalevich developed in the early 60s provided a theoretical background for the research. The method was used in optimal railway longitudinal profile design, electrical and gas network design and operation, critical path finding in the PERT method, production and transport process modelling and automation, etc. The method evolved as applied by Volodymyr S. Mikhalevich and his followers. The endeavor enabled the development of other methods for solving optimization problems as a result and started the Kyiv School of Optimization.
The Department, led by Volodymyr S. Mikhalevich, delivered many applied and theoretical research pro-jects, solved many practical tasks, and developed optimization methods for problems of various classes. Overall, research projects delivered by the Department can be grouped into the following areas: transport networks and transportation development; production processes optimization; optimization approach in railway design and construction; civil aviation systemic development modelling; various allocation problems; optimization theory; development of optimization program packages, etc.
Volodymyr Mikhalevich led the Department of Economic Cybernetics for 34 years. He made a significant contribution to the development of the Institute of Cybernetics and its transformation into a world-class research center, taking on different roles and performing as a Department Head, Deputy Director Research, and eventually Director of the V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics.
Keywords: V.S. Mikhalevich, Victor Glushkov, Institute of Cybernetics, Economic Cybernetics.
Cite as: Biletskiy V., Kuzmenko V., Chikrii G. Academician V.S. Mikhalevich and His Department. Cybernetics and Computer Technologies. 2025. 1. P. 5–11. (in Ukrainian) https://doi.org/10.34229/2707-451X.25.1.1
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