INTRODUCTION

<#14#>THIS PAPER <#14#>uses two style files created for LATEX in order to format an article as in Automatica, the journal of the International Federation of Automatic Control.

The style file <#15#>automatica.sty<#15#> is to be used in combination with the substyles <#16#>IFACart9.sty<#16#>, <#17#>IFACart10.sty<#17#>, <#18#>IFACart12.sty<#18#> and <#19#>IFAC.bst<#19#>. All these files should be in a path known by LATEX.