Segodnya oshchushchaetsya ochevidnyy teoreticheskiy vakuum v voprosakh postroeniya i soprovozhdeniya sovremennykh programmno-apparatnykh kompleksov. V dannoy rabote na baze agentnogo, stsenarno-situatsionnogo i logisticheskogo podkhodov predlagaetsya metodologiya sozdaniya avtomatizirovannykh sistem, osnashchennykh sredstvami intellektual'noy podderzhki. Izlozhenie teoreticheskikh polozheniy illyustriruetsya primerami iz praktiki sozdaniya programmnykh kompleksov. Kniga predstavlyaet interes, kak dlya uchenykh, tak i spetsialistov - praktikov, sozdayushchikh i podderzhivayushchikh avtomatizirovannye sistemy v techenie ikh zhiznennogo tsikla.