“…It should be noted that criterion (1) is frequently used in practice to monitor the performances of the control systems and has long been investigated by many authors (see, for example, [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6] and also the references therein). Moreover, the condition becomes remarkably useful in the design of critical systems [7], [4] (see also [8]), where any violation of the bound ε may give rise to unacceptable consequences.…”