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Control of Processes

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It might well be that the output of the primary process, the topic of the previous chapter, does not match with pre-defined outcomes or expectations; that deviation evokes the need for control, the subject of this chapter. Consider the following example of driving a car, where the output is driving a car at a given speed.

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Dekkers, R. (2015). Control of Processes. In: Applied Systems Theory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10846-9_5

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