Andrea Bacciotti is full professor of Mathematical Analysis at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, where he also served as dean of the Mathematics Department. His research interests focus on ordinary differential equations, differential inclusions, mathematical control theory and switched systems theory. With Springer he already published the book Liapunov Functions and Stability in Control Theory (ISBN 978-3-540-21332-1).

Introduction.- Unforced linear systems.- Stability of unforced linear systems.- Linear systems with forcing term.- Controllability and observability of linear systems.- External stability.- Stabilization.- Frequency domain approach.- Appendix A: Internal stability notions.- Appendix B: Laplace Transform.