The Research Institute of Intelligent Computer Systems (ICS), Ternopil National Economic University (TNEU) was established in 2004 on a basis of Branch Research Laboratory of Automated Systems and Networks, which in turn inherited rights and experience of Branch Research Laboratory of Automated Data Acquisition and Processing Systems, established in 1984 by joint order of the Ministry of Electronics Industry of USSR and the Ministry of Higher and Specialized Secondary Education of Ukrainian SSR. According to a trend for strengthening links between the Ministry of Education and Science and National Academy of Science the ICS is under joint supervision of TNEU and the Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, National Academy of Science since 2007.