“…Many control problems have been extensively studied with many results reported in the literature. These problems include, among others, filtering [35], stability analysis and stabilization [25,39], H ∞ control and prediction [38,40], robust control [37], and passive control [9]. Among the problems studied in the literature, stability is one of the most fundamental (see, for example, [3,4,8,11,15,19,26,36] and the references therein).…”