TY - JOUR N2 - The Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Technical Sciences (Bull.Pol. Ac.: Tech.) is published bimonthly by the Division IV Engineering Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, since the beginning of the existence of the PAS in 1952. The journal is peer‐reviewed and is published both in printed and electronic form. It is established for the publication of original high quality papers from multidisciplinary Engineering sciences with the following topics preferred: Artificial and Computational Intelligence, Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, Civil Engineering, Control, Informatics and Robotics, Electronics, Telecommunication and Optoelectronics, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Thermodynamics, Material Science and Nanotechnology, Power Systems and Power Electronics. Journal Metrics: JCR Impact Factor 2018: 1.361, 5 Year Impact Factor: 1.323, SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) 2017: 0.319, Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2017: 1.005, CiteScore 2017: 1.27, The Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education 2017: 25 points. Abbreviations/Acronym: Journal citation: Bull. Pol. Ac.: Tech., ISO: Bull. Pol. Acad. Sci.-Tech. Sci., JCR Abbrev: B POL ACAD SCI-TECH Acronym in the Editorial System: BPASTS. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/112920/PDF/acsc-29-2-3.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/112920 PY - 2019 IS - No 2 EP - 247–258 DO - 10.24425/acs.2019.129380 KW - absolute stability KW - positive KW - nonlinear KW - discrete-time KW - continuous-time KW - systems A1 - Kaczorek, Tadeusz PB - Committee of Automatic Control and Robotics PAS VL - vol. 29 DA - 2019.06.19 T1 - Absolute stability of a class of nonlinear systems with nonpositive linear parts SP - 247–258 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/112920 T2 - Archives of Control Sciences ER -