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In the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Control Systems Society publishes high-quality papers on the theory, design, and applications of control engineering. TheTransactions is published monthly. In Context: For your results to be understood and better appreciated, it is important to put them in context. Please make sure that in your introduction you include a paragraph or two describing clearly and in some detail the connection of your topic dealt within your paper to Systems and Control problems. If your study was motivated by an application, please say so. If your motivation is to extend previous mathematical results, please state this fact. In that context, please indicate why your results are of importance.
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