hierarchical control

collocation in English

meaningsofhierarchicalandcontrol

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hierarchical
adjective
uk
/ˌhaɪəˈrɑː.kɪ.kəl/
us
/ˌhaɪˈrɑːr.kɪ.kəl/
arranged according to people's or things' level of importance, or relating to such ...
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control
noun
uk
/kənˈtrəʊl/
us
/kənˈtroʊl/
the act of controlling something or someone, or the power to ...
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Regional administration is vertically divided into several tiers which are tightly linked by the principle ofhierarchicalcontrol.
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The connectionist architectures, ensuring fast online learning of robot dynamic uncertainties, are applied at the executivehierarchicalcontrollevel in robot contact tasks.
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He abandoned their obsession with discipline, however, and argued that society was fundamentally self-ordering and structured by free communication nothierarchicalcontrol.
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Some branches of the police had particularly tighthierarchicalcontrol, thereby helping to secure obedience.
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He granted that animals showhierarchicalcontrolbetween processes, reflexivity at the task level, and metacognition.
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Thishierarchicalcontrolscheme permits the decomposition of complex problems into a series of smaller and simpler ones.
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Traditional static andhierarchicalcontrolstructures do not suffice for such situations.
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The developed control system employs the two-levelhierarchicalcontrolstructure based on a simple coordination scheme.
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There is a lack ofhierarchicalcontrolthrough strict governmental monitoring, imposing sanctions or lending authority and formal support to the new modes of governance.
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The factors leading to this condition were arbitrary administration,hierarchicalcontrol, and inefficient use of capital.
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The alternative is a form ofhierarchicalcontrol.
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The water planning process is significant, insofar as it represents (at least notionally) a movement fromhierarchicalcontrolof water management to a more network-based or collaborative mode of governance.
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It achieves this by a combination of a large number of degrees of freedom and a complexhierarchicalcontrolaided by a large number of internal and external sensors.
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Rather, it uses twohierarchicalcontrolmechanisms.
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Conventional management thinking has moved away from traditional systems of centralised andhierarchicalcontrol.
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Everyone is permitted to get away with making a botch of things, without any properhierarchicalcontrol.
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Ahierarchicalcontrolsystem is a type of control system in which a set of devices and governing software is arranged in a hierarchical tree.
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Reinforcement learning has been used to acquire behavior in ahierarchicalcontrolsystem in which each node can learn to improve its behavior with experience.
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A hierarchical task network is a good fit for planning in ahierarchicalcontrolsystem.
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