Includes bibliographical references and index.

Strategies and roadmaps to meet grid challenges for safety and reliability / Vahid Madani and Roger L. King -- Optimal maintenance policies for power equipment / George J. Anders -- Mathematical and physical properties of reliability models in view of their application to modern power system components / Elio Chiodo and Giovanni Mazzanti -- Adequacy assessment of wind-integrated composite generation and transmission systems / Roy Billinton, Yi Gao, Dange Huang and Rajesh Karki -- Strategic lines and substations in an electric power network / Alvaro Torres and George J. Anders -- Transmission expansion planning: a methodology to include security criteria and uncertainties using optimalization techniques / Armando M. Leite da Silva, Leandro S. Rezende and Luiz Ant�onio F. Manso -- The economic evaluation of system security criterion in a competitive market environment / Teoman Guler, George Gross, Eugene Litvinov and Ron Coutu -- Probabilistic transient stability assessment and on-line Bayes estimation / Elio Chiodo and Davide Lauria -- Updating system representation by trajectory acquisition in a dynamic security framework / Sergio Bruno and Massimo La Scala -- Reliable algorithms for power flow analysis in the presence of data uncertainties / A. Dimitrovski, K. Tomsovic and A. Vaccaro -- Index.