Towards of IT-Support For Transdisciplinary Research

The conceptual foundations of transdisciplinary researches with the use of methods and means of artificial intelligence, including ontological engineering, have been developed. The stages of formation of the theory of transdisciplinarity are defined, in which the processes of building the categorical level of concepts and integration of subject knowledge, the formation of clusters of convergence of subject disciplines, the scientific picture of the world and the corresponding global network of transdisciplinary knowledge take a special place. In this case, a special role belongs to informatics as a system-forming branch of knowledge. The development of the NBIC-cluster of convergence opens wide, so far completely unappreciated opportunities for creation of the applied distributed systems in specific subject areas (Internet of Things, Smart systems in telemedicine, environmental monitoring, information support of goods and services, energy systems, utilities, etc.).