This publication presents Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on System Analysis in Engineering and Management (SAEM' 14): best papers of the conference, organized by the St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University and the Southern Federal University, Central Economics and Mathematics Institute RAS and the International Higher Education Academy of Sciences includes articles by leading scientists whose reports were selected conference participants. Chairman of the Organizing Committee — President of St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University and Saint-Petersburg Department of International Higher Education Academy of Science, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Y. S. Vasiliev.