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"Intertwining the details of Abbie Hoffman's intense personal life with the dramatic politics of the sixties, seventies, and eighties, Jack Hoffman creates a full and poignant portrait of his older brother. From the creation of the Yippies! in 1967, the tumult of the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests, the humor and agony of the Chicago conspiracy trial, the scandal of Abbie's 1973 cocaine bust and his six and half years as a fugitive, to his reemergence as environmentalist "Barry Freed" and his final struggle with manic-depressive illness, this biography offers a compelling examination of the contradictions that make Abbie Hoffman such a compelling figure. With the information and affection only a brother could bring to the complexities of Abbie's life, Jack Hoffman, together with Daniel Simon, portrays Abbie's public persona alongside his private aspirations and fears, romances, and enduring family relationships"--

This book presents a comprehensive overview of enterprise architecture management with a specific focus on the business aspects. While recent approaches to enterprise architecture management have dealt mainly with aspects of information technology, this book covers all areas of business architecture from business motivation and models to business execution. The book provides examples of how architectural thinking can be applied in these areas, thus combining different perspectives into a consistent whole. In-depth experiences from end-user organizations help readers to understand the abstract concepts of business architecture management and to form blueprints for their own professional approach. Business architecture professionals, researchers, and others working in the field of strategic business management will benefit from this comprehensive volume and its hands-on examples of successful business architecture management practices.

It is a well known fact that finite time optimal controllers, such as MPC do not necessarily result in closed loop stable systems. Within the MPC community it is common practice to add a final state constraint and/or a final state penalty in order to obtain guaranteed stability. However, for more advanced controller structures it can be difficult to show stability using these techniques. Additionally in some cases the final state constraint set consists of so many inequalities that the complexity of the MPC problem is too big for use in certain fast and time critical applications. In this paper we instead focus on deriving a tool for a-postiori analysis of the closed loop stability for linear systems controlled with MPC controllers. We formulate an optimisation problem that gives a sufficient condition for stability of the closed loop system and we show that the problem can be written as a Mixed Integer Linear Programming Problem (MILP). ; Funding agencies: Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA); Centrum for indnstriell informationsteknologi (CENIIT)