Mikhail Belov

Research in the fields of Systems Theory and General Theory of Control, mathematical methods of Cybernetics, and their applications to control sociotechnical and complex adaptive systems including:

• Systems Theory and systems engineering – sociotechnical systems, enterprise systems, complex systems, systems of systems engineering and management;
• Enterprise/product lifecycle value and cost modelling;
• Operations research;
• Contract theory and economic game theory;
• Stochastic processes, statistics, disorder problem; optimization methods in complex systems and economics;
• Mathematical modelling of economics of complex project/program management;
• Systems aspects of cognitive science, AI, internet of things.

Books

1. M. Belov, D. Novikov Methodology of complex activity – Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020. – 310 p.
2. M. Belov, D. Novikov Models of technologies – Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020. – 113 p.
3. M. Belov, D. Novikov Optimal Enterprise. Structures, Processes and Mathematics of Knowledge, Technology and Human Capital. CRC Press, 2021. – 344 p.
4. M. Belov, D. Novikov Methodology of complex activity (in Russian) – Moscow: Lenand, 2017. – 310 p.
5. M. Belov, D. Novikov Models of technologies (in Russian) – Moscow: Lenand, 2019. – 160 p.
6. M. Belov, D. Novikov Control of lifecycles of sociotechnical systems (in Russian) – Moscow: Lenand, 2019. – 380p.
7. M. Belov, D. Novikov Models of activity (in Russian) – Moscow: Lenand, 2021. – 216 p.

Book chapters

8. M. Belov IBS Group, Eastern European ITS Services – Capability-Based Development for Business Transformation // Case Studies in System of Systems, Enterprise Systems, and Complex Systems Engineering / Gorod, A., B. E. White, V. Ireland, S. J. Gandhi, and B. J. Sauser – Boca Raton, FL.: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. P. 129-164.
9. M. Belov Advanced manufacturing management approaches (in Russian). // Whitepaper for Advanced manufacturing technologies. Moscow, SKOLTECH, 2015. P. 23-51.
10. M. Belov Successful Business Transformation within a Russian Information Technology Company // BKCASE Editorial Board. 2019. The Guide to the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK), v. 2.0 R.J. Cloutier (Editor in Chief). Hoboken, NJ: The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology. Accessed 01.09.2019. www.sebokwiki.org. BKCASE is managed and maintained by the Stevens Institute of Technology Systems Engineering Research Center, the International Council on Systems Engineering, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society. P. 955 – 966.
11. M. Belov, D. Novikov Structural models of complex activity (in Russian) // Modern problems of Large Complex Systems development. (Issue 3) / Tsvirkun A. (Ed) – Moscow: Phismatlit, 2018. P. 24-29.
12. M. Belov, D. Novikov Methodological Foundations of the Digital Economy // Big Data-driven World: Legislation Issues and Control Technologies. Springer, 2019. – P. 3-14.
13. M. Belov, D. Novikov Reflexive models of complex activity // Cybernetics and Systems / Sergio Barile (Ed.), Raul Espejo (Ed.), Igor Perko (Ed.), Marialuisa Saviano (Ed.) – London: Routledge, 2019. – P. 535-540.
14. Belov M.V., Novikov D.A. (2020) Methodology of Complex Activity. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore.

Some conferences and papers of 2014 and later

• Belov, M. A Capability Based Approach to Improve Effectiveness of Information and Computer Technologies / M. Belov // 9th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, Adelaide, Australia 9-13 June 2014, IEEE Catalog Number: CFP14SOS-POD; ISBN: 978147995228; P. 43-48.
• Belov, M. How We Engineer Enterprise Systems / M. Belov // INCOSE Italian Chapter Conference on Systems Engineering (CIISE2014) Proceedings, Rome, Italy, November 24-25, 2014. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1300/ID13.pdf
• Belov, M. General-System Modelling Framework of Complex Activity/ M. Belov // 10th European Modelling Symposium on Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation. Ed. D. Al-Dabass, V. Colla, M. Vannuci, A. Pantelous. IEEE Conference Record No. 40530. Pisa, 2016. – P. 13-18.
• Belov, M. General-System Approach to the Development of Complex Activity Technology / M. Belov, D. Novikov // Procedia Computer Science. – 2017. – Volume 112. 2076 2085 (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050917316241)
• Belov, M. Models of adaptation in dynamical contracts under stochastic uncertainty / M. Belov, D. Novikov // Advances in Systems Science and Application. – 2018. №1. – P. 110 131.
• Belov, M. Theory of Complex Activity as a Tool to Analyze and Govern an Enterprise / M. Belov // 13th Annual Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE 2018). Paris, France 19-22 June 2018. IEEE Catalog Number: CFP18SOS-POD; ISBN: 9781538648773 P. 541-548.
• Belov, M.V., Novikov, D.A. Network Active Systems: Models of Planning and Incentives. Autom Remote Control 80, 2229–2244 (2019) doi:10.1134/S0005117919120117
• Belov and D. Novikov, “Optimal Enterprise: Engineering and Control,” 2020 IEEE 15th International Conference of System of Systems Engineering (SoSE), Budapest, Hungary, 2020, pp. 000235-000242, doi: 10.1109/SoSE50414.2020.9130549 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9130549
• Belov, M.V., Novikov, D.A. Models of Experience. Control Sciences 1, 37–52 (2021).
• Belov, M.V. Optimal Control of the Life Cycle of Complex Systems. Control Sciences 1, 15–26 (2022).

Lecturing on course “Systems engineering”, supervising of MS and PhD students.