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Control and Management of Man-Made Systems

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Global Stability through Decentralization?

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This chapter is devoted to gauge the effects of centralized vs. decentralized organization of dynamical systems. From the analysis it appears that “alignment of intelligence” between agents is key to achieve optimality as well as stability in distributed systems, and this alignment of intelligence is made possible thanks to communication. It appears that in any well-functioning and intelligent system, there shall be an equilibrium between local control and central control, and there shall be rules of interaction between the intelligent agents participating. This brings up the question of ethics, which is defined as the actual behavioral principles of the participating intelligent agents, and the discussion focusses on how desired behavior (desired ethics) can be made concordant with actual ethics. System-wide conditioning plays an important role in achieving this.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Zippelius (2011).

  2. 2.

    Vogt (2009).

  3. 3.

    Schuler et al. (2001).

  4. 4.

    The Danube Protection Commission of 1856, the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine, Mannheim Convention of 31 March 1831.

  5. 5.

    Germany adopted it into law via the Act of 23 August 1994 regarding the International Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (Federal Law Gazette 1994, p. 1355).

  6. 6.

    Resolution of UN General Assembly (A/64/L.63/Rev. 1 and Add.1).

  7. 7.

    Resolution Human Rights and Access to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation (A/HRC/RES/15/9).

  8. 8.

    International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) of 16 December 1966. Resolution 2200A (XXI) of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Entered into force on 3 January 1976.

  9. 9.

    See explanatory notes from the German Federal Government in Bundestag printed paper 17/4526 p. 5.

  10. 10.

    See preliminary remarks in the Annex to Optional Protocol Resolution 2200A (XXI) of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Entered into force on 3 January 1976.

  11. 11.

    (See BT printed paper 17/4526 p. 5).

  12. 12.

    For more information, see Drost in Martin Grambow (Publisher) “Nachhaltige Wasserbewirtschaftung” [Sustainable Water Management] under No. 4.2.1 Sustainable Legislation, SpringerVieweg Verlag 2013.

  13. 13.

    The Treaty of the European Union, as laid out in the Lisbon Treaty of 13 December 2007 (OJ no. C306 p. 1, OJ 2008 no. C 111 p. 56, OJ 2009 no. C 290 p. 1 OJ 2011 no. C 378 p. 3).

  14. 14.

    In the version of the announcement from 9 May 2008 (OJ no. C 115 p. 47), amended multiple times.

  15. 15.

    Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany (“German Constitution”) in the adjusted version published in the Federal Law Gazette Part III, Outline Number 100-1, last amended via Article 1 of the Law from 23 December 2014 (Federal Gazette I pg. 2438).

  16. 16.

    See Art. 65 of the Introductory Law of the German Civil Code.

  17. 17.

    See Art. 75 GG, in the version applicable until 1 September 2006.

  18. 18.

    See, for example, Bayern die Verordnung über die Errichtung und Organisation der staatlichen Behörden für die Wasserwirtschaft [Ordinance on the Set-up and Organization of State Authorities for Water Management] – OrgWasV from 4.12.2005 (Law and Ordinance Gazette p. 623), last amended by the Ordinance from 1.3.2012 (Law and Ordinance Gazette p. 86).

  19. 19.

    See e.g. Art. 24 of the Bavarian Municipal Code (BayGO).

  20. 20.

    See e.g. Art. 21 BayGO.

  21. 21.

    See, e.g. Art. 5 and 8 of the Bavarian Municipal Revenue Act in the version published on 4 April 1993, amended multiple times.

  22. 22.

    See e.g. Art. 110 to 113 BayGO.

  23. 23.

    Ruling of the German Constitutional Court of 15 July 1981, case no.: 1 BvL 77/78 – known as the Wet Extraction Ruling.

  24. 24.

    See § 4 (2) WHG.

  25. 25.

    See § 4 (3) WHG.

  26. 26.

    Directive 200/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy (OJ. L 327 of 22 December 2000 p. 1), amended multiple times.

  27. 27.

    See § 7 (3) (1) WHG.

  28. 28.

    See the remarks on the “joint bodies,” in Ute Mager 2010 (Uruguay v. Argentina).

  29. 29.

    Schuler et al. (2001).

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    Patrick Dewilde

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    Bernhard Schätz

  4. Alumnus Technical University of Munich, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Martin Korndörfer

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Dewilde, P., Drost, U., Grambow, M., Schätz, B., Korndörfer, M. (2016). Control and Management of Man-Made Systems. In: Wilderer, P.A., Grambow, M. (eds) Global Stability through Decentralization?. Strategies for Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24358-0_2

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