This book discusses real applications of soft computing (SC) in power systems. These SC techniques, inspired by the human mind and biological behavior, have proven to be excellent tools to overcome the challenges faced in power systems and related areas. The techniques are robust and provide low-cost solutions while also offering an effective solution for studying and modeling the behavior of renewable energy generation, operation of grid-connected renewable energy systems, and sustainable decision-making among alternatives. The tolerance of SC techniques to imprecision, uncertainty, partial truth, and approximation makes them highly useful alternatives to conventional techniques.
The rapid growth in SC techniques plays an important role in powerful representation, modeling paradigms and optimization mechanisms for solving power system issues such as power quality, reactive power control, oscillation and stability problems, renewable energy resource eval-uation, design of energy efficiency systems, economic load dispatch problems or very different energy system applications in smart grids.

Vijay Sood received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Bradford, UK, in 1977. He is currently a Professor at Ontario Tech University, Canada. Previously, he was a senior researcher at the Research Institute of Hydro-Quebec (IREQ, Montreal). He has extensive experience in the simulation of HVDC-FACTS systems and their controllers. He has authored two textbooks on HVDC transmission. His research focuses on the monitoring, control, and protection of power systems and on the integration of renewable energy systems into smart grids. Dr. Sood is a Registered Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario, Canada. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, and Emeritus Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He served previously as a Director of the IEEE Canadian Foundation and as a former Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, and Co-editor of the IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Power series for River Publishers. Krishna Murari received the B.Tech degree in electrical engineering from WBUT, India, in 2010, the M.E degree in power systems from Thapar University, India in 2014, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India in 2019. He currently serves as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA. Prior to this, he worked as a Research Associate at Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York. He has also worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Energy Production, and Infrastructure Center (EPIC), University of North Carolina at Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. He is the recipient of the third-best prize award from The Industrial Automation and Control Committee of the IEEE Industry Application Society for his research work presented at the IAS annual meeting 2021. He is a reviewer of journals, such as IEEE, IET, MDPI, and Taylor Francis journal. His research interests include power system analysis, power flow studies, demand-side management, optimization and control of DERs, optimal power flow, distribution network pricing, and smart grid.

Om Hari Gupta received the M.Tech. degree in power electronics & ASIC design from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, in 2011 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India, in 2017. He is an awardee of the Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship for research visiting Canada and from March 2017 to June 2017, he was a visiting Researcher at the Ontario Tech University, Canada. Since 2018, Dr. Gupta is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India. He is one of the founding organizing secretaries of the conference series ""Electric Power and Renewable Energy Conference - EPREC"". Dr. Gupta is the author/editor of five books and has more than 80 publications including one Indian Patent (Granted). He is a senior member of IEEE and a reviewer of many reputed journals like IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, IET Generation and Transmission, Electric Power Systems Research, Electric Power Components and Systems, and International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems. His research interests include power system protection, microgrid, renewable-based distributed generation, and electric power quality.

Anupam Kumar currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), National Institute of Technology Patna, India, from Oct 2022. Prior, he was an Assistant Professor at IIIT Kota and IIIT Bhagalpur, India, from 2019–2022 and 2018–2019, respectively. His current research interests include Fuzzy logic systems, Robotics, Signal Processing, Robot Assistive device, Biomedical engineering, Health care application, Deep learning, Machine learning, etc. He received the M.Tech and Ph.D. degree from IIT Roorkee, India, in 2012 and 2018 in the ECE Department. He has published more than 14 SCI/Scopus journals, 13 conferences, 7 book chapter, 2 book chapters, 1 patent granted and 2 patent published. His current google scholar citation is more than 600. He is serving as reviewer in journals like IEEE Transactions, Elsevier, Springer, Taylor Francis journal and Wiley. He also served as a reviewer at many conferences. He is also a recipient of the best paper award at NIT Kurukshetra. He has attended several workshops and participated in many research activities.