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Papers by Coales adapted for lectures in China, arranged in 12 chapters (chapters 10 and 11 are missing) and three appendices. With copies of slides used in presentations. Titles as follows: 'The design and control of large systems'; 'Simple control systems'; 'Stochastic systems'; 'Industrial control systems'; 'The design procedure'; ''State space representation'; 'The complex industrial process'; 'Dynamical control of complex processes'; The Kalman filter'; 'Calculus of variations'; The maximum principle.' Chapters 7 and 9 are untitled. Also includes copies of background papers, as follows : 'F-16 flight control system management'; Jaguar to fly by wire'; A strategy for the near optimal allocation of overtime in an Engineering factory'; 'Self-optimizing multivariable systems'; 'Self-adaptive control'; 'Supplemented partitioning approach to filtering.'