Most of the contributions, outcomes, and insight presented in this book were achieved through long-term teaching and research conducted by the authors and their research groups on power system monitoring and control issues over the years. Since 2000, the authors have intensively worked on various projects in the area of power system monitoring, dynamic stability analysis, and advanced control issues.

Some previous research and project topics are power system stabilization using superconducting magnetic energy storage (Osaka University, Japan); Campus WAMS project (for the sake of monitoring of power system dynamics, stability, and power flow status using installed PMUs in several university campuses in Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore); high-tech green campus project (Kyushu Institute of Technology and Kyushu Electric Co., Japan); intelligent/robust automatic generation control (Frontier Technology for Electrical Energy, Japan and West Regional Electric Co., Iran); power system emergency control (Queensland University of Technology, and Australian Research Council, Australia); and sophisticated smart grid controls (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan; and University of Kurdistan, Iran). It is a pleasure to acknowledge the support and awards the authors received from all the mentioned sources.

The authors would also like to thank their colleagues and postgraduate students Dr. M. Fathi, H. Golpira, A. G. Tikdari, S. Shokoohi, F. Habibi, N. Hajimohammadi, and R. Khezri for their active role and continuous support. Finally, the authors offer their deepest personal gratitude to their families for their patience during the preparation of this book.