Alexey Grigorievich Ivakhnenko

Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine A.G.Ivakhnenko is an outstanding scientist in the field of automatic control, cybernetics and informatics, whose scientific results have received a worldwide recognition. He published about 40 monographs and more than 400 scientific articles, many of which, and first of all books, have been translated in English, German, Polish, Bulgarian, Romanian and Chinese languages. The significant quantity of his articles has been published in scientific periodicals of USA, England, Germany, and other countries.

A.G.Ivakhnenko has developed new principles and devices for automatic control of speed of electric engines and for computing of systems with magnetic amplifiers. His achievements in the invariance theory and in the theory of combined systems of automatic control working by the principle of compensation of measured disturbances are universally recognized. He has written the first domestic monograph on technical cybernetics which was republished abroad several times. The further development of principles of combined control in A.G.Ivakhnenko's works is connected with the use of principles, devices and ways of self-tuning, self-training, pattern recognition and forecasting in control systems.

In last 40 years, the main brainchild of A.G.Ivakhnenko, the Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH), is actively developing as a method of inductive modelling and forecasting of complex processes and systems. In 1984, in USA the collective monograph of American and Japanese scientists with the delineation and examples of effective application of GMDH in various applied areas was published. Dozens of publications on the subject of GMDH appear each year in scientific magazines of the world, and the English-language website www.gmdh.net is actively visited every day.

The scientific school of A.G.Ivakhnenko for a long time serves as an authoritative and productive smithy of highly skilled scientific staff: under his supervision 200 candidate dissertations (PhDs) were carried out and successfully defended, and almost 20 of his pupils have defended doctoral dissertations and created their own scientific schools.

A.G.Ivakhnenko carried a rank of the Distinguished Man of Science of Ukraine, he was awarded with an "Friendship of the nations" order and medals. In 1991 A.G.Ivakhnenko has received the State Premium of Ukraine for his works in the theory of invariance of automatic systems. In 1997 he has received the State Premium of Ukraine for the series of works on information technologies in the field of artificial intelligence.

A.G.Ivakhnenko serves as an example of scientist with a heightened sense of novelty and outstanding scientific intuition. Up to his last days he continued to work actively, lavishly generating original scientific ideas and results.

Main Books:

1. Ivakhnenko A.G. Method of group accounting of arguments - competitor to the method of stochastic approximation // Avtomatika. - 1968. - ¹ 3. - P. 58-72. (In Ukrainian.)
3. Ivakhnenko A.G. Systems of heuristic self-organization in technical cybernetics. - Kiev: «Tekhnika», 1971. - 392 p. (In Russian.)
4. Ivakhnenko A.G. Long-term forecasting and control of complex systems. - Kiev: «Tehnika», 1975. - 311 p. (In Russian.)
5. Ivakhnenko A.G. Inductive method of self-organization of models of the complex systems. - Kiev: «Sciences. thinking», 1982. - 296 p. (In Russian.)
6. Ivakhnenko A.G., Stepashko V.S. Noise-immunity of modeling. - Kiev: «Naukova dumka», 1985. - 216 p. (In Russian.)
7. Ivakhnenko A.G., Yurachkovsky Yu.P. Modeling of complex systems from experimental data. - Moscow: "Radio i svyaz", 1987. - 120 p. (In Russian.)
8. Ivachnenko A.G., Mueller J.A. Selbstorganisation von vorhersagemodellen. - Berlin: Veb Verlag Technik, 1984. - 223 p. (In German.)
9. Madala H.R., Ivakhnenko A.G. Inductive learning algorithms for complex systems modeling. - London, Tokyo: CRC Press, 1994.