Sergey Zhuravlev

Monitoring system development using simulation

This paper1 contains the overview of a new simulation system intended for the simulation of the wide class of industrial and transportation systems. The example of the use of this system for the simulation of oil production enterprise is considered.

Fashion Meets Socialism: Fashion industry in the Soviet Union after the Second World War

This book presents, above all, a study of the establishment and development of the Soviet organization and system of fashion industry and design as it gradually evolved in the years after the Second World War in the Soviet Union, which was, in the understanding of its leaders, reaching the mature or last stage of socialism when the country was firmly set on the straight trajectory to its final goal, Communism. What was typical of this complex and extensive system of fashion was that it was always loyally subservient to the principles of the planned socialist economy. This did not by any means indicate that everything the designers and other fashion professionals did was dictated entirely from above by the central planning agencies. Neither did it mean that their professional judgment would have been only secondary to ideological and political standards set by the Communist Party and the government of the Soviet Union. On the contrary, as our study shows, the Soviet fashion professionals had a lot of autonomy. They were eager and willing to exercise their own judgment in matters of taste and to set the agenda of beauty and style for Soviet citizens. The present book is the first comprehensive and systematic history of the development of fashion and fashion institutions in the Soviet Union after the Second World War. Our study makes use of rich empirical and historical material that has been made available for the first time for scientific analysis and discussion. The main sources for our study came from the state, party and departmental archives of the former Soviet Union. We also make extensive use of oral history and the writings published in Soviet popular and professional press.

Simulation of Technological Processes in Coal Mining

Abstract This paper describes the new visual interactive simulation system of technological processes intended for the development and execution of simulation and emulation models for process control systems. A set of simulation models was developed with the help of this simulation system. These models were developed with the goal to be used as a quality assurance tool for new process control systems of coal mining. Simulation models of various subsystems of coal mining were united to create simulation environment of coal mining. Simulation environment is visually interactive, include emulation models of technological equipment and allow to simulate complex situations in mines and working faces visually as well as to check the response of process control system developed for these situations. Simulation environment was used for testing of algorithms of programmable logic controllers as a part of process control systems prior to commissioning. Simulation environment can be used not only for existing coal mining techniques but also for perspective (robotized) techniques.