After a short introduction to the fundamentals, this book provides a detailed account of major advances in applying fractional calculus to dynamical systems. Fractional order dynamical systems currently continue to gain further importance in many areas of science and engineering.

Preface.- Introduction.- Basic Concepts and Preliminares.- Synchronization of Chaotic Systems by means of a nonlinear observer: An application to Secure Communications.- Synchronization for Chaotic system through an Observer using the Immersion and Invariance (I&I) Approach.- Synchronization of Nonlinear Fractional Order Systems by Means of PIra Reduced Order Observer.- Estimators for a class of commensurate fractional order systems with Caputo derivative.- Generalized Multi-synchronization of Fractional Order Liouvillian Chaotic Systems using Fractional Dynamical Controller.- An Observer for a Class of Incommensurate Fractional Order Systems.- Fractional Generalized quasi-synchronization of incommensurate fractional order oscillators.- Synchronization and Anti-synchronization of fractional order chaotic systems by means of a fractional integral observer.- Appendix.- Index.