1 Introduction
  1.1 Principles of Deregulation
  1.2 Overview of Deregulation Worldwide
   1.2.1 Regulated vs Deregulated
   1.2.2 Typical Electricity Markets
  1.3 Uncertainties in a Power System
   1.3.1 Load Modeling Issues
   1.3.2 Distributed Generation
  1.4 Situational Awareness
  1.5 Control Performance
   1.5.1 Local Protection and Control
   1.5.2 Centralized Protection and Control
   1.5.3 Possible Coordination Problem in the Existing Protection and Control System
   1.5.4 Two Scenarios to Illustrate the Coordination Issues Among Protection and Control Systems
  1.6 Summary
  References
 2 Fundamentals of Emerging Techniques
  2.1 Power System Cascading Failure and Analysis Techniques
  2.2 Data Mining and Its Application in Power System Analysis
  2.3 Grid Computing
  2.4 Probabilistic vs Deterministic Approaches
  2.5 Phasor Measurement Units
  2.6 Topological Methods
  2.7 Power System Vulnerability Assessment
  2.8 Summary
  References
 3 Data Mining Techniques and Its Application in Power Industry
  3.1 Introduction
  3.2 Fundamentals of Data Mining
  3.3 Correlation, Classification and Regression
  3.4 Available Data Mining Tools
  3.5 Data Mining based Market Data Analysis
   3.5.1 Introduction to Electricity Price Forecasting
   3.5.2 The Price Spikes in an Electricity Market
   3.5.3 Framework for Price Spike Forecasting
   3.5.4 Problem Formulation of Interval Price Forecasting
   3.5.5 The Interval Forecasting Approach
  3.6 Data Mining based Power System Security Assessment
   3.6.1 Background
   3.6.2 Network Pattern Mining and Instability Prediction
  3.7　Case Studies
   3.7.1 Case Study on Price Spike Forecasting
   3.7.2 Case Study on Interval Price Forecasting
   3.7.3 Case Study on Security Assessment
  3.8 Summary
  References
 4 Grid Computing
  4.1 Introduction
  4.2 Fundamentals of Grid Computing
   4.2.1 Architecture
   4.2.2 Features and Functionalities
   4.2.3 Grid Computing vs Parallel and Distributed Computing
  4.3 Commbnly used Grid Computing Packages
   4.3.1 Available Packages
   4.3.2 Projects
   4.3.3 Applications in Power Systems
  4.4 Grid Computing based Security Assessment
  4.5 Grid Computing based Reliability Assessment
  4.6 Grid Computing based Power Market Analysis
  4.7 Case Studies
   4.7.1 Probabilistic Load Flow
   4.7.2 Power System Contingency Analysis
   4.7.3 Performance Comparison
  4.8 Summary
  References
 5 Probabilistic vs Deterministic Power System Stability and Reliability Assessment
 6 Phasor Measurement Unit and Its Application in Modern Power Systems
 7 Conclusions and Future Trends in Emerging Techniques
 Appendix
 References