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are: V. E. Kotov, Full Professor and Corresponding Member of the RAS and
former Head of the laboratory, and who, at present also holds a long-term contract
with the Hewlett-Packard Company; Dr. I. B. Virbitskaite, Dr. A. A. Sulimov, and
Dr. N. V. Shilov. The main research thrust of the laboratory is the development of
fundamental methods for describing semantics, the specification and verification of
parallel computer systems and programs.
2, VLSI CAD Laboratory: under Professor A. G. Marchuk. Personnel in the
laboratory number some 23 researchers, including Dr. Z. V. Apanovich, research
scientist D. N. Kuznetsov, Dr. A. E. Nedozya, and research scientist E. V.
Tarasov. Activities in the laboratory have included work on CAD/CAM
microelectronics and mechanical engineering. Basic representations and models of
mechanical objects and graphic interfaces have been developed. These experiments
have been done on the construction and application of data base systems based on
CLIENT/SERVER architecture--a daunting problem requiring deep thought and
attention. The laboratory has also investigated the portable compiler construction
and the architecture of extensible object-oriented environments (00) has been done
in the VLSI CD laboratory.
3. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory: under Dr. T. M. Yakhno. Personnel in the
laboratory number 14 researchers, including the former Head of the laboratory Dr.
A. S. Narin'ani (Aleksandr S. Nariniani); Dr. I. E. Schvetsov, Dr. Iurii A.
Zagorulko, Dr. V. V. Telerman, and Dr. C. Ia. Greenberg. The laboratory has
developed knowledge representation means for knowledge bases of intelligent
systems, and developed the technology for designing intelligent systems.
Laboratory scientists have studied frames, semantic networks, production systems,
and sub definite computation models and they have proved that frame systems may
be transformed into production systems thereby providing semantic networks. They
have designed and developed prototypes of technological systems for artificial
intelligence which use object-oriented means of representation, production systems,
and computation models. Expert systems developed in the laboratory are in use in
complex technological processes at industrial plants in the Novosibirsk region.
4. Parallel Systems Laboratory: under Dr. M. N. Doroyevets (Doroievets).
Personnel in the laboratory number 11 researchers, including Dr. Iurii L.
Vishnevsky (skii) (Vishnevskii). The laboratory develops and evaluates advanced
processor architecture; a network node station for using open distributed
communication systems; and they have proposed a new approach referred to as
Multithreaded decoupled architecture for exploiting fine and middle-grain
parallelisms in superscalar processors.
5. Laboratory of Experimental Informatics: under Dr. A. A. Baehrs. The
personnel of the laboratory number seven researchers. Scientists in the laboratory
have taken a new approach to modeling multiactivity on multiprocessor systems of
the interactive heterogeneous computing facilities which is an object-constructed
high-level operation environment--CHLOE--a conceptual model which allows one
to cover the up-to-date level of the problem of developing new informatics
platforms. It is a basis for the efficient implementation of the platforms. The
laboratory has also been researching the techniques and methodologies for
publishing texts using the MRAMOR-FA workstation.
6. Systems Programming Laboratory: under Professor I. V. Pottosin. Personnel of
the laboratory number 18 researchers, including Professor A. V. Zamulin, Dr. G>
G. Stepanov, Dr. S. B. Pokrovsky (Pokrovskii), and Dr. V. I. Shelekhov. The
laboratory scientists program languages and develop compilation techniques;
develop models of software in an advanced programming environment, and
develop methods and tools for environmental support. They develop software for
embedded computer systems.
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