From the reviews: "The book was clearly written with a control engineering audience in mind, and the level of mathematical rigor is adapted to that. ... Additional advantages of the book lie in the uniformity of treatment of these contributions, the amount of examples, and the unexpected areas that these examples come from." (Stefan Ratscham, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2004 k) "This text is an introduction to hybrid systems, their stability and stabilization, and a presentation of various applications. ... There are 218 references, and an index ... . The book is of interest as a study on stability issues for hybrid systems and for original applications." (A. Akutowicz, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1060, 2005)

• Examples and Modelling of Switched and Impulsive Systems.- Analysis of Switched and Impulsive Systems.- Stability of Linear Switched and Impulsive Systems.- Stability of Nonlinear Switched and Impulsive Systems.- Impulsive Synchronization of Chaotic Systems.- Chaos Based Secure Communication Systems.- Scheduling of Switched Server Systems.- Relative Differentiated Quality of Service of the Internet.- Switched Scalable Video Coding Systems.- Future Research Directions and Potential Applications.

From the reviews: "The book was clearly written with a control engineering audience in mind, and the level of mathematical rigor is adapted to that. ... Additional advantages of the book lie in the uniformity of treatment of these contributions, the amount of examples, and the unexpected areas that these examples come from." (Stefan Ratscham, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2004 k) "This text is an introduction to hybrid systems, their stability and stabilization, and a presentation of various applications. ... There are 218 references, and an index ... . The book is of interest as a study on stability issues for hybrid systems and for original applications." (A. Akutowicz, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1060, 2005)

• Examples and Modelling of Switched and Impulsive Systems.- Analysis of Switched and Impulsive Systems.- Stability of Linear Switched and Impulsive Systems.- Stability of Nonlinear Switched and Impulsive Systems.- Impulsive Synchronization of Chaotic Systems.- Chaos Based Secure Communication Systems.- Scheduling of Switched Server Systems.- Relative Differentiated Quality of Service of the Internet.- Switched Scalable Video Coding Systems.- Future Research Directions and Potential Applications.

From the reviews: "The book was clearly written with a control engineering audience in mind, and the level of mathematical rigor is adapted to that. ... Additional advantages of the book lie in the uniformity of treatment of these contributions, the amount of examples, and the unexpected areas that these examples come from." (Stefan Ratscham, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2004 k) "This text is an introduction to hybrid systems, their stability and stabilization, and a presentation of various applications. ... There are 218 references, and an index ... . The book is of interest as a study on stability issues for hybrid systems and for original applications." (A. Akutowicz, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1060, 2005)

• Examples and Modelling of Switched and Impulsive Systems.- Analysis of Switched and Impulsive Systems.- Stability of Linear Switched and Impulsive Systems.- Stability of Nonlinear Switched and Impulsive Systems.- Impulsive Synchronization of Chaotic Systems.- Chaos Based Secure Communication Systems.- Scheduling of Switched Server Systems.- Relative Differentiated Quality of Service of the Internet.- Switched Scalable Video Coding Systems.- Future Research Directions and Potential Applications.