• 1. Expert systems. 1.1. Development of an intelligent management system for efficient management of hydro-electric power plants and development of a relevant knowledge base. 1.2. Development of an expert system for managing day-to-day normal modes of energy systems. 1.3. Development of principles, methods and means of building a research prototype of an expert system for effective management of power system modes. 1.4. Using Petri nets in production systems. Development of algorithms for resolving conflicts between production rules. 2. Computer networks. 2.1. Development of algorithms for ensuring effective speed of information transfer in a simplex channel. 2.2. Development of effective methods of virtual connection reconfiguration for combined networks with variable structure. 3. Distance learning and computer pedagogy. 3.1. Development of visual methods and algorithms for computer learning. 3.2. Simulation models and Petri nets in computer learning. 3.3. Development of distance learning methods.