Integrated System for Intelligent Control The main objectives of this book are a) to provide a refe rence book for teaching graduate and undergraduate students in control systems distributedAI computer integrated ma nufacturing AI in engineering applications and computer science b) to help professional research staff to trace the up to date technology developed in above areas; and c) to provide a self instruction tutoring book for retraining en gineers in industry. In order to accomplish the above objec tives this book provides the following special features: 1. fundamental knowledge about intelligent control and integra ted intelligent system 2. primary concepts 3. functions analyses of meta system 4. the newest development in distri buted AI 5. the coherent integration of academic research and real industrial applications 6. a comprehensive syste matic and original work through stages as philosophy metho dology functionality architecture implementation and ap plications