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As connectivity becomes ubiquitous and sensors, actuators, and controllers are seamlessly embedded in our daily lives, it is essential to develop general system theories and multidisciplinary design methodologies for emerging networked, multi-agent, and cyber-physical systems. These systems are increasingly autonomous, interconnected, and operate in complex, dynamic environments across diverse domains. Key application areas include high-tech manufacturing, precision agriculture, healthcare, autonomous and cooperative vehicles across land, air, and water, as well as future energy systems such as nuclear fusion. Addressing these challenges requires scalable, adaptive, and intelligent approaches that can handle complexity while ensuring reliability, efficiency, and resilience.

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Next-generation engineering systems demand a seamless integration of computation, communication, and control with the physical processes they govern鈥攔anging from thermal, mechanical, chemical, biological dynamics and energy flows and their multi-physics combinations. These cyber-physical systems (CPS) are at the core of autonomous, interconnected, and intelligent technologies, yet the underlying disciplines have traditionally evolved in isolation, limiting their full potential. Bridging this gap requires a new generation of hybrid systems theory that unites control engineering, computer science, and communication theory into a coherent and scalable design framework.

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