Acknowledgements 9 
Summary 11 
Streszczenie 13 
Zusammenfassung 15 
1. Introduction 17 
2. Coherent synthesis of computer systems – model and method 18 
2.1. Classical process of computer synthesis 18 
2.2. General model for the problem of system synthesis 19 
2.3. Process of parallel synthesis of computer systems 22 
3. Evolutionary method for coherent synthesis of computer systems 24 
3.1. Data structures 25 
3.2. Resource partition 30 
3.3. Task scheduling 40 
3.4. Coherent resource partition and task scheduling 45 
3.5. Computational experiments 48 
3.6. Conclusions 62 
3.7. Example of coherent synthesis application 62 
4. Tabu search method for coherent synthesis of computer systems 70 
4.1. General idea and an example of the use of tabu search method 70 
4.2. Resource partition 74 
4.3. Task scheduling 74 
4.4. Coherent resource partition and task scheduling 76 
4.5. Computational experiments 78 
4.6. Conclusions 83 
5. Neural method for coherent synthesis of computer systems 84 
5.1. Neural network model 84 
5.2. Algorithm description 86 
5.3. Task scheduling 87 
5.4. Resource partition 100 
5.5. Coherent resource partition and task scheduling 104 
5.6. Computational experiments 109 
5.7. Conclusions 118 
6. Ant colony and Branch & Band methods for coherent synthesis of computer systems 119 
6.1. Adaptation of ACO to solve the problems of synthesis 119 
6.2. Adaptation of B & B to solve the problems of synthesis 123 
6.3. Computational experiments 124 
6.4. Conclusions 149 
7. The comparison of coherent synthesis algorithms 149 
7.1. Resource partition 149 
7.2. Task scheduling 164 
7.3. Coherent resource partition and task scheduling 176 
8. Résumé, conclusions, further research 194 
Bibliography 198