Founded and invoving personel with considerable relted experience, NETSS is primarily about Smart Grids as a means of implementing sustainable IT-enabled electricity services; Modeling and control of future electric energy systems (transforming hierarchical into open-access systems); Modeling and control of economic, policy and technical interactions in dynamic systems under uncertainties (applied to electricity markets); Critical infrastructures and their interdependencies (cyber-physical systems); Computer methods and algorithms for simulating large-scale dynamic systems; Electric power systems modeling; Design of monitoring, control and pricing algorithms for electric power systems; Normal and emergency control of electric power systems.