Spain was the leading European power in the early imperial rivalry for control of North America and for centuries, dominated the Southeastern and Southwestern parts of what was later the United States -- particularly the States of Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.
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The autonomy of the objects can be realized by novel communication technologies such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and wireless communication networks. These and others permit and require new control strategies and autonomous decentralized control systems for production and logistic processes. In this setting, aspects like flexibility, adaptivity, and reactivity to dynamically changing external influences while maintaining the global goals are of central interest (Fig.