Engineering Asset Management 2010 represents state-of-the art trends and developments in the emerging field of engineering asset management as presented at the Fifth World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM).

The proceedings of the WCEAM 2010 is an excellent reference for practitioners, researchers and students in the multidisciplinary field of asset management, covering topics such as:

• Asset condition monitoring and intelligent maintenance
• Asset data warehousing, data mining and fusion
• Asset performance and level-of-service models
• Design and life-cycle integrity of physical assets
• Education and training in asset management
• Engineering standards in asset management
• Fault diagnosis and prognostics
• Financial analysis methods for physical assets
• Human dimensions in integrated asset management
• Information quality management
• Information systems and knowledge management
• Intelligent sensors and devices
• Maintenance strategies in asset management
• Optimisation decisions in asset management
• Risk management in asset management
• Strategic asset management
• Sustainability in asset management

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Joseph Mathew is the WCEAM 2010's Congress Chair and also WCEAM's General Chair. He is Chief Executive Officer of the CRC for Infrastructure and Engineering Asset Management, Australia.

Lin Ma is Programme Leader of the Capability Optimisation Programme in the CRC for Infrastructure and Engineering Asset Management.

Andy Tan is Professor in the School of Engineering Systems, Queensland University of Technology.

Margot Weijnen is Professor for Process and Energy Networks at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology. She is the Founding and Scientific Director of the international research centre for Next Generation Infrastructures.

Jay Lee is Ohio Eminent Scholar and L.W. Scott Alter Chair Professor in Advanced Manufacturing at the University of Cincinnati and Co-Director Intelligent Maintenance Systems Center, USA.