“…However, the interconnections between two or more physical systems are often accompanied by phenomena such as material transfer, energy transfer and information transfer, which, from a mathematical point of view, can be represented by delay elements (Michiels and Niculescu 2007). This has motivated the study of large scale time delay interconnected systems, and many results have been achieved (Bakule 2008, Hua and Ding 2011, Ye et al 2012. However most of the existing results consider situations where all the system states are available.…”