%0 Book Section %A Heemels, W.P.M.H. %A De Schutter, Bart %A Bemporad, Alberto %B Proc. 40th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control %C Orlando, Florida USA, December 2001 %D 2001 %F eprints:583 %I IEEE %K hybrid dynamical models; linear complementarity systems; max-min-plus-scaling systems; mixed logical dynamical systems; piecewise affine systems; continuous time systems; discrete systems; linear systems %P 364-369 %T On the equivalence of classes of hybrid dynamical models %U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/583/ %V 1 %X We establish equivalences among five classes of hybrid systems, that we have encountered in previous research: mixed logical dynamical systems, linear complementarity systems, extended linear complementarity systems, piecewise affine systems, and max-min-plus-scaling systems. These results are of paramount importance for transferring properties and tools from one class to another