Oleg V. Kryuchin, Alexander A. Arzamastsev, Klaus G. Troitzsch, Natalia Zenkova

• This paper describes results of the simulation of social objects, the dependence of schoolchildren's professional abilities on their personal characteristics. The simulation tool is the artificial neural network (ANN) technology. Results of a comparison of the time expense for training the ANN and for calculating the weight coefficients with serial and parallel algorithms, respectively, are presented.