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Intelligent control is a rapidly growing subject in systems engineering, with several different techniques being developed and exploited in recent years. These range from fuzzy logic control which has been utilized widely by the Japanese in the high-volume consumer market cameras, washing machines, cars to genetically-based design algorithms.; All of these modern techniques are described in the book under the unifying theme of their application to clinical medicine. Intelligent control is intended to deal with uncertain, nonlinear, time-varying situations, and these are common-place in the life sciences. The major application here is that of on-line drug-infusion control for anaesthesia in operating theatres.