Michael Zgurovsky - Michael Zgurovsky is Rector of National Technical University of Ukraine "Kiev Polytechnic Institute", Director of the Institute for Applied System Analysis of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. Doctor of technical sciences, academician of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is a member of the Board on Science and Scientific-Technical Policy at President of Ukraine, Head of the Association of Rectors of Technical Universities of Ukraine, Co-Head of the Ukrainian Union of Scientists and Engineers. During 1994-1999 M. Zgurovsky was Minister of Education of Ukraine and took an active part in working out a number of laws on education. He is a well-known scientist in the field of mathematics and cybernetics. His scientific interests and research embrace methodology of system analysis, the theory of decision making under uncertainty

conditions, analysis and cybernetics. His scientific interests and research embrace methodology of system analysis, the theory of decision making under uncertainty conditions, analysis and modeling of complex systems of various nature. M. Zgurovsky is a member of Academies of sciences of many countries, Senior Member of IEEE, Member of the Governing Board of UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (Moscow, Russia), the National Representative of Ukraine in CODATA, Member of EDNES, National Representative of Ukraine in ICSU.