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This article presents analysis of a typical process related to implementation of a release cycle of electronic periodicals in a publishing house of a higher educational establishment. A set of main components that represent various parts of the publisher’s organizing structure and affect the operating behavior was determined. A process of maintaining queries from users by editors, reviewers, and bibliographers was considered. As a result of the conducted investigations, it was shown that the law of inflow of publication queries in an electronic periodical was the simplest one. Parameters of that simplest inflow of users’ queries were also determined. A formalized scheme represented in the form of a closed-loop querying system was proposed for description of a typical process of the release cycle of electronic periodicals.

An approach to calculation of weighting coefficients of experts’ rank assessments, which is aimed at improvement of processing results of an expert survey, was proposed. This approach was designed to increase the concurrence level of experts’ opinions within a formed working group. Weighting coefficients are calculated either considering known numerical values of experts’ experience levels or on the basis of experts’ rank assessments produced from a test assignment. Recommendations on formation of a competent working group of experts who belong to the same school of sciences, as well as rules for using the normalized rank system, are at the heart of this approach. An example that illustrates efficiency of the proposed approach was presented in this paper.

The authors propose a new approach aimed at formation of an expert group and improvement of polling organization for this expert group in order to obtain relevant information when selecting the best variant of development of the data processing system. The specified approach is based on the recommendations on the formation of a competent working expert group; rules for using a standardized rank system; recommendations on organization of expert-polls; rules for processing results of these polls; recommendations on result adjustments for certain experts of the working group aimed at the increase in the level of consistency of expert opinions. An example that illustrates efficiency of the proposed approach was presented in the article.

This article describes methods of decision-making theory which allow the decision maker to analyze various promising ways of upgrading a LAN server in detail and chose the best one; these ways are selected by a working group of experts. Recommendations are proposed on use of given methods in practice. A wide range of server’s operating parameters is taken into account along with nameplate engineering data. Practical guidelines on numerical composition of initial promising variants of upgrading a LAN server are also given. An example that demonstrates potentials of the proposed method is provided in the article.