  During years 2008 to 2011 author gives several courses on Foundations of
Scientific Research at Computer Science Faculty of the National Aviation
University in Kiev. This text presents material to lectures of the courses. It
consists of 18 sections and some ideas of the manual can be seen from their
titles. These include: General notions about scientific research. Ontologies
and upper ontologies. Ontologies of object domains. Examples of Research
Activity. Some Notions of the Theory of Finite and Discrete Sets. Algebraic
Operations and Algebraic Structures. Elements of the Theory of Graphs and Nets.
Scientific activity on the example of Information and its investigation.
Scientific research in Artificial Intelligence. Compilers and compilation.
Objective, Concepts and History of Computer security. Methodological and
categorical apparatus of scientific research. Methodology and methods of
scientific research. Scientific idea and significance of scientific research.
Forms of scientific knowledge organization and principles of scientific
research. Theoretical study, applied study and creativity. Types of scientific
research: theoretical study, applied study. Types of scientific research: forms
of representation of material. Some sections of the text contain enough
material to lectures, but in some cases these are sketchs without references to
Foundations of Research Activities. Really this is the first version of the
manual and author plans to edit, modify and extend the version. Some reasons
impose the author to post it as e-print. . Author compiled material from many
sources and hope that it gives various points of view on Foundations of
Research Activities.
