Predmetnye oblasti ispol'zovaniya avtomatizirovannykh sistem (AS) opredelili perechen' potrebitel'skikh kachestv sovremennykh programmno-apparatnykh kompleksov, kotorye delayut ikh vostrebovannymi - eto osnashchenie AS sredstvami emotsional'noy okraski situatsii, povyshennyy uroven' nadezhnosti, mobil'nost' i drugie. Potrebnost' v etikh kachestvakh privela k neobkhodimosti razvitiya metodologiy ikh sozdaniya i soprovozhdeniya. Dannaya kniga posvyashchena probleme razvitiya instrumentariev postroeniya AS, v chastnosti sistem distantsionnogo monitoringa i upravleniya s uchetom spetsifiki ikh realizatsii i podderzhki na baze sistem podvizhnoy svyazi. Teoreticheskie polozheniya illyustriruyutsya primerami iz praktiki sozdaniya programmnykh kompleksov. Kniga predstavlyaet interes, kak dlya uchenykh, tak i praktikov, sozdayushchikh i podderzhivayushchikh avtomatizirovannye sistemy v techenie ikh zhiznennogo tsikla.