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This paper tries to understand the keys necessary for a new approach for automatic control. It starts by analyzing its history and identifying the symptoms that occur once and again when new paradigms, theories or breakthrough inventions came up. Then, it analyses the symptoms of today and discusses whether they match any of the previous symptoms in the past. Then, yet another theory is proposed here, the modification systems, which joins the benefits of Automatic Control and Agents Metaphor: The modification systems, which are designed as a generalization of control systems and situated agents, where anybody does not control a system but modifies a system by some multidimensional change of its original behavior toward a desired target behavior. We show some examples and case studies of their behavior, which as a potential generalization of automatic control give the background to conceive further tools to design more simple but powerful controllers.
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de la Rosa, J.L., Figueras, A., Quintero, C., Ramon, J.A., Ibarra, S., Esteva, S. (2008). Outline of Modification Systems. In: Cotta, C., Reich, S., Schaefer, R., Ligęza, A. (eds) Knowledge-Driven Computing. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 102. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77475-4_14
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