Peter Simon Sapaty, Chief Research Scientist at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, has been researching networked systems for five decades. Outside of the Ukraine, he has worked in the former Czechoslovakia (now the Slovak Republic), Germany, the UK, Canada, and Japan as a group leader, Alexander von Humboldt researcher, and invited and visiting professor. He launched and chaired the SIG on Mobile Cooperative Technologies in Distributed Interactive Simulation project in the US, and he invented a distributed control technology that resulted in a European patent. Dr Sapaty has published several books and over two hundred papers, and he has worked with several international scientific journals, including in the role of Editor-in-Chief.