Stability of Dynamical Systems: On the Role of Monotonic and Non-Monotonic Lyapunov Functions

Introduction.- Dynamical Systems.- Fundamental Theory: The Principal Stability and Boundedness Results on Metric Spaces.-Fundamental Theory: Specialized Stability and Boundedness Results on Metric Spaces.- Applications to a Class of Discrete-Event Systems.- Finite-Dimensional Dynamical Systems.- Finite-Dimensional Dynamical Systems: Specialized Results.- Applications to Finite-Dimensional Dynamical Systems.- Infinite-Dimensional Dynamical Systems.