After Aslib kindly invited me to this conference I spent considerable time trying to take stock of what business information is available in Belgium and the Netherlands. Of course I did not uncover all possible sources myself (far from it) and I think therefore the title of my talk may be...

The main purpose of this paper is to state some sufficient conditions for global synchronization of chaotic maps. The synchronization is viewed as a state reconstruction problem which is tackled by polytopic observers. Unlike most standard observers, polytopic observers can account for a special...