The Golden Rule of Ethics (ePub)

the Candidate's Dissertation (1963) and then the Doctor's Dissertation (1974) in Engineering. In 1983, he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR; in 1993, a Full Member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences. Later on, he became the Academician-secretary of the Department for Applied Mechanics, Machine Building, Energy and Control Processes of the Academy and also a Member of the Academy's Presidium. In 1996, he was awarded the Nikoladze Prize of the Academy, which was established as far back as 1973 for the best scientific works in engineering. In 1996 and again in 2004, he was awarded the State Prize of Georgia in the field of science and technology. In 2014, he and Vladislav I. Zhukovskiy became the winners of the International Contest for the Best Scientific Book, held in Russia. For many years, Salukvadze was the Head of the Georgian Section of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) as well as a member of the editorial boards of several scientific journals such as Moambe (Bulletin of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences), International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making, and Automation and Remote Control (Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences). In addition, he was a member of several scientific councils and organizations. He had close cooperation with a series of research centers all over the world and participated in leading international conferences and symposia. He was a Member of different international academies of sciences, including the New York Academy of Sciences (since 1994). For 25 years, Academician Salukvadze was Director of the Eliashvili Institute of Control Systems (1981-2006), and then Chairman of the Institute's Scientific Council. The research interests of Salukvadze covered the stability of control systems and the theory of optimal control. He authored over 140 scientific papers, 14 monographs and six textbooks, known in Georgia and also abroad. Salukvadze's method, Salukvadze's solution, Salukvadze's principle-these terms were introduced by American and Russian investigators. In 1975, Metsniereba Press (Tbilisi) published Salukvadze's well-known monograph Zadachi vektornoi optimizatsii v teorii upravleniya, which was translated into English under the title Vector-Valued Optimization Problems in Control Theory and published by Academic Press in 1979. Another prominent monograph by Salukvadze, Vector-Valued Maximin (in co-authorship with Vladislav V. Zhukovskiy), was published by Academic Press in 1994. Salukvadze was a fruitful educator, holding the position of Professor at Tbilisi State University. He supervised a series of Doctor's and Candidate's Dissertations. He passed away late 2018.