The meeting will be the eighth of a series of conferences devoted to the scope of the CMFT Journal, i.e.
- CMFT 1989, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile, March 13-18, 1989
- CMFT 1994, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, March 21-25, 1994
- CMFT 1997, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, October 13-17, 1997
- CMFT 2001, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, June 25-29, 2001
- CMFT 2005, University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland, June 13-17, 2005
- CMFT 2009, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, June 8-12, 2009
- CMFT 2013, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong, China, June 10-14, 2013