Includes bibliographical references and index.

A framework for interdisciplinary research and education -- Modeling electricity markets: a brief introduction -- Alternative economic criteria and proactive planning for transmission investment in deregulated power systems -- Payment cost minimization with demand bids and partial capacity cost compensations for day-ahead electricity auctions -- Dynamic oligopolistic competition in an electric power network and impacts of infrastructure disruptions -- Plant reliability in monopolies and duopolies: a comparison of market outcomes with socially optimal levels -- Building an efficient reliable and sustainable power system: an interdisciplinary approach -- Risk-based power system planning integrating social and economic direct and indirect costs -- Models for transmission expansion planning based on reconfigurable capacitor switching -- Next generation optimization for electric power systems.