Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Elements of a classical control system -- Introduction to system of systems -- Observer design and Kalman filtering -- Fuzzy systems : sets, logic, and control -- Neural network-based control -- System of systems simulation -- Control of system of systems -- Reward-based behavior adaptation -- An automated system to induce and innovate advanced skills in a group of networked machine operators -- A system of intelligent robots-trained animals-humans in a humanitarian demining application -- Robotic swarms for mine detection system of systems approach.