Nastoyashchaya kniga znakomit chitatelya s modelyami issledovaniya operatsiy i metodami planirovaniya, provedeniya i analiza dannykh model'nogo eksperimenta. Dovol'no podrobno rassmatrivayutsya osnovnye ponyatiya i metody staticheskoy i dinamicheskoy optimizatsii.Izlozheny metody resheniya analiza i sinteza optimal'nykh sistem upravleniya, osnovnye teoreticheskie polozheniya i modeli iskusstvennykh neyronnykh setey, oblast' ikh primeneniya. Material knigi illyustriruetsya tablitsami, grafikami, skhemami. Dlya studentov, obuchayushchikhsya po cpetsial'nosti "Prikladnaya matematika i informatika," "Avtomatizirovannye sistemy proektirovaniya," a takzhe studentam drugikh spetsial'nostey, svyazannykh s issledovaniem operatsiy i prinyatiem resheniy. Metodika primeneniya teoreticheskikh rezul'tatov i reshenie prakticheskikh zadach illyustriruetsya soderzhatel'nymi primerami. Mozhet byt' polezna takzhe dlya podgotovki aspirantov, magistrov i spetsialistov, svyazannykh s analizom i sintezom slozhnykh sistem.