ICAMDATA covers topics on AM data needs in various scientific and technological areas (such as aeronomy, astrophysics, biomedicine, gaseous electronics, surface physics, industrial plasmas, and environmental, fusion, semiconductor and other technologies), and the development of experimental and theoretical methods for AM data generation, AM data collection, assessment, exchange and dissemination activities, establishment of national and international general and purpose-oriented AM databases, standardization of data formats and assessment criteria and efficient utilization of modern data access and transmission tools (such as WWW and Internet).