This year, we are celebrating a remarkable event: the 60th anniversary of the first issue of the “Kibernetyka ta Systemnyi Analiz” (“Cybernetics and Systems Analysis”) journal. Founded in January 1965 at the Institute of Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (and initially named “Kibernetika” (“Cybernetics” in Russian)), this journal has become an important scientific publication that has brought together experts from all over the world in the field of cybernetics and information technology. Since its first issues, the journal has become a platform for exchanging ideas and research results and for discussions about the future of artificial intelligence, automation, and control of complex systems.

Academician Viktor Glushkov, a prominent Ukrainian scientist and the founder of information technology in Ukraine, initiated the creation of the journal. Under his leadership, the journal quickly gained recognition and became a platform for publishing original research, review articles, conference proceedings, meeting reports, and monograph reviews.

The first editorial board of the journal included talented scientists with a worldwide reputation in the field of information technology: Kateryna Logvynivna Yushchenko (theoretical and address programming), Oleksandr Adolfovych Letichevskyi (applied theory of algorithms), Mykola Panteleymonovych Buslenko (modeling of complex systems), Volodymyr Semenovych Korolyuk (probability theory and mathematical statistics, programming methods), Lev Arkadiiovych Kaluzhnin (algebra and logic, set theory), Volodymyr Antonovych Kovalevskyi (information theory, pattern recognition), Oleksandr Ivanovych Kukhtenko (mechanics, technical cybernetics), Oleksiy Andriyovych Lyapunov (set theory, mathematical issues of cybernetics, mathematical linguistics), Anatolii Ivanovych Maltsev (general theory of algebraic systems and model theory), Serhii Lvovych Sobolev (mathematical physics), Anatolii Oleksiyovich Dorodnitsyn (information processing, mathematical support of computers), Andrii Petrovych Yershov (theory and automation of programming), and others.

The journal’s topics in the 1960s mainly concerned the theoretical problems of the theory of automata and algorithms, optimization methods, and their application in the national economy. V. M. Glushkov’s articles on the algebra of algorithms and the obviousness algorithm were published. They determined the further development of domestic studies in artificial intelligence and the application of algebraic methods in the programming and design of computer systems for many years.

The subject area of publications in the theory of design and development of complex systems, optimal control methods, in particular, for decision-making in various subject areas, and methods of discrete and stochastic optimization significantly expanded in 1991. The active development of systems theory, which became the basis for systems analysis and modeling of complex systems, was reflected in the new title of the journal: “Kibernetika i Sistemnyi Analiz” (“Cybernetics and Systems Analysis” in Russian).

As the technologies developed, research priorities changed, which led to the emergence of new areas of publications in the journal related to big data, machine learning, cyber security, etc.

In 2021, following the Law of Ukraine “On Ensuring the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as a State Language,” the journal began to be published in Ukrainian under the title “Kibernetyka ta Systemnyi Analiz” (“Cybernetics and Systems Analysis” in Ukrainian).

For six decades, the “Cybernetics and Systems Analysis” journal has remained at the forefront of scientific thought and published materials covering the latest achievements of domestic and foreign cybernetics. Due to the high level of peer review and article selection, the journal has gained international recognition, and each issue is translated into English by Springer Publishing Company under the title “Cybernetics and Systems Analysis.” The journal is indexed in various databases: SCOPUS, Web of Science, INSPEC, Zentralblatt Math, Google Scholar, EBSCO, CSA, ProQuest, Academic OneFile, Academic Search, ACM Digital Library, Computer Science Index, CSA Environmental Sciences, EI-Compendex, Gale, INIS Atomindex, io-port.net, Mathematical Reviews, OCLC, SCImago, STMA-Z, Summon by ProQuest, Ukrainika Naukova.

The journal continues its mission of promoting the development of science and technology, bringing together researchers, and informing readers about recent advances in cybernetics and systems analysis.

We congratulate all the authors, editors, and readers on this milestone and wish them further success and new scientific achievements!

EDITORIAL BOARD AND EDITORS OF THE JOURNAL