It is an excellent reference for practitioners, researchers and students in the multidisciplinary field of asset management, covering such topics as asset condition monitoring and intelligent maintenanc; asset data warehousing, data mining and fusion; asset performance and level-of-service models; design and life-cycle integrity of physical assets; deterioration and preservation models for 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; and sustainability in asset management.
Dimitris Kiritsis is WCEAM's 2009 Chair and Associate Director of the Laboratory for Computer-Aided Design and Production of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
Christos Emmanouilidis is WCEAM 2009's Co-Chair and a Senior Researcher and Head of the Computational Systems and Applications Department of the Cultural and Educational Technology Institute/Athena Research Centre in Greece.
Andy Koronios is a Programme Leader of the Systems Integration Programme in the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Integrated Engineering Asset Management and head of Computer Science at the University of South Australia.
Joseph Mathew is WCEAM's 2009 Co-Chair and also WCEAM's General Chair. He is Chief Executive Officer of the CRC for Integrated Engineering Asset Management, Australia.