Aims & Scope
Aim of the Journal
Automation of Technological and Business Processes is a peer-reviewed scientific periodical whose aim is to establish an authoritative international platform for the publication and discussion of current advances in automation, technological and business process management, measurement technologies, decision support systems, computer science, and computer engineering. The journal is committed to strengthening the link between fundamental scientific research and its practical implementation in industrial and commercial enterprises, as well as to raising the standard of training for highly qualified specialists in the field.
Scope of the Journal
- Advancing scientific discourse — publication of original theoretical, methodological, and applied research reflecting the current state and future prospects of technological and business process automation;
- Ensuring publication quality — independent double-blind peer review to guarantee the reliability of results and a high methodological standard of all published materials;
- Fostering innovation — supporting research aimed at the development and deployment of intelligent control systems, adaptive algorithms, neural network and fuzzy logic methods in real industrial environments;
- Bridging science and practice — disseminating hands-on experience in the implementation of automation systems across various industries, including efficiency analysis and practical recommendations;
- Promoting interdisciplinary research — encouraging work at the intersection of automatic control theory, information technologies, metrology, engineering, and business management;
- Developing industry talent — highlighting innovative approaches to the training of automation specialists and facilitating the exchange of pedagogical and methodological experience in line with global educational standards;
- International openness — attracting authors and readers from diverse countries and supporting comparative studies between developed and developing nations in the context of industrial and business process automation.
Main subject areas of the publication:
- ISSUES OF THEORY, METHODS AND ALGORITHMS FOR EFFECTIVE AUTOMATIC CONTROL OF CHEMICAL-TECHNOLOGICAL TYPE OBJECTS, INCLUDING:
- objects with distributed parameters and/or delay, under conditions of intensive disturbances (automatic control systems that are invariant, cascade-based, with variable structure, with forecasting, with object models, etc.);
- objects with significant uncertainty and non-stationarity of properties (automatic control systems with optimisation, adaptation, based on artificial neural networks and fuzzy logic);
- objects with "emergency situation" type constraints on the values of their operating variables and objects with limited control resources;
- objects with logical-dynamic properties
- AUTOMATIC AND AUTOMATED PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS (PRINCIPLES OF CONSTRUCTION, DEVELOPMENT EXAMPLES, EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS), INCLUDING:
- mathematical modelling and identification of technological process models as control objects, approaches to adequacy assessment, use of models for the development of control systems and as components of control algorithms;
- new approaches to the development of automated systems for complex technological processes (functional, scenario-based, evolutionary, etc.);
- decision support systems for operators of automated systems and principles for developing effective automated workstations (AWS) for operators;
- improving efficiency and optimisation of automatic control of groups of technological units (connected in series, in parallel, with recirculation, or in mixed configurations);
- control of technological processes in start-up (transient) and steady-state operating modes
- MEASUREMENT OF TECHNOLOGICAL VARIABLES AND VARIABLES CHARACTERISING THE CONDITION OF EQUIPMENT, AND THEIR METROLOGICAL SUPPORT, INCLUDING:
- physical and technical foundations of automatic continuous and/or express measurement methods, issues of their metrological support and software-hardware implementation;
- methods for improving the accuracy of direct and indirect measurements;
- restoration of values of variables unavailable for direct measurement, including diagnostics of faults in the technical condition of equipment.
- TECHNICAL MEANS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN CONTROL SYSTEMS, INCLUDING:
- reviews and comparative analysis of software and hardware tools for collecting, processing and presenting information on the course of the technological process, tools of the intelligent core of the system, and means of influencing the process;
- organisation of networks for interaction between controllers and computers within the intelligent core of the system, interaction of the core with information collection and process influence tools, with remote users and system commissioning engineers;
- practical issues of expedient application, commissioning, configuration, installation of automation equipment, and effective use of software tools
- THEORY AND PRACTICE OF BUSINESS PROCESS AUTOMATION:
- theoretical foundations of business process automation, scientific and methodological approaches to business process management and their automation;
- innovative technologies for business process automation;
- practical solutions to business process automation issues, experience in implementing business process automation systems.
- IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF TRAINING SPECIALISTS IN THE FIELD OF AUTOMATION OF TECHNOLOGICAL AND BUSINESS PROCESSES:
- directions and methods for improving the quality of specialist training in the field of automation
- effective forms of organising the educational process, global experience in organising systems for training highly qualified specialists, and quality management systems in education.
Submissions addressing problems in both developed and less developed countries are welcomed. Articles should make a substantial contribution to the theoretical and/or methodological literature on the issue and contain a strong scientific component.