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Man has two principal objectives in the scientific study of his environment: he wants to understand and to control. The two goals reinforce each other, since deeper understanding permits firmer control, and, on the other hand, systematic application of scientific theories inevitably generates new problems which require further investigation, and so on.
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Rovithakis, G.A., Christodoulou, M.A. (2000). Introduction. In: Adaptive Control with Recurrent High-order Neural Networks. Advances in Industrial Control. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0785-9_1
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