Abur (electrical engineering, Texas A&M University) and Expósito (chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Seville, Spain) offers an account of the strategies utilized in state estimation of electric power systems, providing a broad overview of power system operation and the role of state estimation in overall energy management. Blending theory and mathematical rigor, they tackle traditional topics associated with weighted least squares estimations, as well as new aspects of the problem of state estimation, such as robust estimation and recent work on ampere measurements, paying special attention to computational efficiency issues. Chapter problems are included, and appendices review basic statistics and the sparse linear equation solution. The book can be used as a text for a graduate course on the subject, and as a supplement in an undergraduate course in power system analysis. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)