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.