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Automatica

Volume 18, Issue 6, November 1982, Pages 647-664
Automatica

Survey paper
Decentralized and hierarchical control under consistency or disagreement of interests

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Abstract

This paper is a description of the various decision situations that can arise whenever a system is under control of multiple decision units. It also makes reference to the existing theories and approaches that aim to describe the decision processes in such structures.

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    The original version of this paper was presented at the 2nd IFAC Symposium on Large Scale Systems Theory and Applications, which was held in Toulouse, France during June 1980, and also at the International Symposium on Systems Analysis, held in Berlin, Germany. The published proceedings of the IFAC meeting may be ordered from Pergamon Press Ltd., Headington Hill Hall, Oxford OX3 0BW, U.K. This paper was recommended for publication in revised form by Survey Papers Editor, G. Saridis.

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