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PLoP
Pattern Languages of Programs, People, and Practices (PLoP®) is the premier conference for pattern authors and users to gather, discuss and learn more about patterns. To achieve this, the conference promotes the use of patterns and pattern languages, as well as the underlying theory of the nature of order. PLoP 2024 will be held October 13-16, 2024. Visit the PLoP Official Site,
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The Hillside Mission
The mission of the Hillside Group is to improve the quality of life and society as a whole. This includes architects, developers, managers, owners, workers, educators, students, and more. Understanding and helping the human element is critical for achieving success. The Hillside Group believes in making processes and design more humane by paying attention to real people and existing practices.
The Hillside Group promotes the use of patterns and pattern languages to record, analyze, and share knowledge to help achieve its mission. The Hillside Group sponsors a variety of activities to achieve this mission—organizing workshops, hosting PLoP (pattern) conferences, and producing publications for discussing, recording, and documenting successful practices.
The Hillside Group supports many different conferences such as: PLoP, EuroPLoP, AsianPLoP, VikingPLoP, SugarLoafPLoP, and ChiliPLoP. These conferences focus on writing groups to better improve patterns through group exposure. Each conference offers advanced topics for the more adept pattern writers. Participants have the opportunity to refine and extend their patterns with help from knowledgeable and sympathetic patterns enthusiasts.
Pattern Books
The Design Patterns Book Series showcases many patterns from PLoP conferences and leading experts in the patterns field.
See our Pattern Book Library filled with over 80 Pattern related books.
Patterns Resources
- Pattern Definition
A pattern language defines a consists of patterns and the rules with sequences to combine them.
- Patterns Catalog
A collection of pattern resources on the web. Sign up for an account to add your own.
- Tools for Writing Patterns
Pattern writing tools include example code and pattern writing templates.
- PLoP Conference Proceedings
Past conference proceedings from the PLoP conferences.
PLoP Conferences
Basic Info
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Motivation
Software patterns constitute a highly effective means of improving the quality of software engineering, system design and development, and communication among the people building them. Patterns capture the best practices of software design, making them available to all software engineers.
This new LNCS Transactions subline aims to publish papers on patterns and pattern languages as applied to software design, development, and use, throughout all phases of the software life cycle, from requirements and design to implementation, maintenance and evolution. The primary focus of the LNCS Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming is on patterns, pattern collections, and pattern languages themselves. The journal also includes reviews, survey articles, criticisms of patterns and pattern languages, as well as other research on patterns and pattern languages.
In addition to presenting and discussing patterns, this LNCS journal aims to present material that is validated -- crucial to the application and advancement of both industry and research. In this spirit, the LNCS Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming focuses on publications that present patterns, research results and industrial studies that are verifiable. Every paper has been reviewed by both patterns experts and domain experts, including researchers and practitioners.
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Editors-in-Chief
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James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
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Ralph Johnson, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
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European Editor
North American Editor
Eugene Wallingford, University of Northern Iowa, USA
Editorial Board
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Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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Joe Bergin, Pace University, New York, USA
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Robert Biddle, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
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Grady Booch, IBM, USA
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Frank Buschmann, Siemens AG, Germany
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Jim Coplien, Nordija, Denmark
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Ward Cunningham, AboutUS, USA
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Jutta Eckstein, Consultant, Germany
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Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College London, UK
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Richard P. Gabriel, IBM research, USA
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Erich Gamma, IBM, Switzerland
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Neil B. Harrison, Utah Valley State College, USA
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Kevlin Henney, Curbralan Ltd, UK
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Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego, USA
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Mary Lynn Manns, University of North Carolina at Asheville, USA
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Michael J. Pont, The University of Leicester, UK
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Lutz Prechelt, Free University Berlin, Germany
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Dirk Riehle, SAP Labs LLC California, USA
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Mary Beth Rosson, Pennsylvania State University, USA
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Andreas Rueping, Consultant, Germany
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Doug Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, TN, USA
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Peter Sommerlad, Institute for Software at HSR Rapperswil, Switzerland
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Jenifer Tidwell, Consultant, USA
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Joseph W. Yoder, Consultant, USA
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Aims and Scope
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Patterns and pattern languages
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Reviews and critiques of patterns and pattern languages
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Research on patterns and pattern languages
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Case studies of the use of patterns and pattern languages
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Empirical assessment and evaluation of patterns and pattern languages
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Tool support for patterns and pattern languages
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Topics
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Patterns in software development generally, including software design, software engineering, and software architecture
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Process patterns for management and development processes
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Patterns for human-computer interaction (user-interface patterns, or novel modes of interaction)
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Patterns for education (ranging from professional training to classroom teaching)
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Patterns for business and organizations
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Modeling patterns, analysis patterns, design patterns
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Patterns for object-oriented design, aspect-oriented design, and software design generally
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Patterns to describe libraries, frameworks, and other reusable software elements
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Patterns for middleware, including distribution, optimization, security, and performance improvement
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Domain specific patterns and technology specific patterns, as well as generic patterns
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Patterns for refactoring and reengineering
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Formal models and type systems for patterns
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Programming environments, software repositories, and programming languages for patterns
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The use of patterns to improve quality attributes such as adaptability, evolvability, reusability and cost-effectiveness
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Submission of Manuscripts
We expect papers submitted for consideration to have been workshopped and reviewed at at least one Hillside Group PLoP conference. When you submit your paper, please identify the most recent conference, year, writers workshop, and the workshop chair where you paper was workshopped.
All queries should be addressed to the above email address.
The Springer Journal Website accompanies this site with information regarding the patterns journal.
- Hillside Fellowship Award
- PLoP Conference Proceedings
- Patterns for API Design
- Pattern Languages of Programing
- Security Patterns in Practice
The Hillside Fellowship Award
The Hillside Fellowship Program was established in 2016 to recognize members of The Hillside Group who have made exceptional contributions to the Hillside community and to the Patterns community at large. The title of Hillside Fellow denotes an outstanding member who has consistently and repeatedly:
- provided excellence in contributions to the patterns body of knowledge
- advanced the arts,
PLoP Conference Proceedings
After the PLoP Workshops, writers are encouraged to modify their papers and submit a final version. The final versions are collected and submitted to the ACM Digital Library. The versions are also available from the conference website.
Conference Proceedings (ACM Digital Library)
Some of the PLoP accepted papers have been published on the ACM Digital Library . The program committee will
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This book is for any domain, technology, or platform
- Identify and overcome API Challenges
- Size your endpoint types and operations
- Design request and response messages and their representations
- Refine your message design for quality
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PLoP™ (Oct 13-16, 2024)
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Security Patterns in Practice
Eduardo Fernandez's new book " Security Patterns in Practice: Designing Secure Architectures with Software Patterns " has been published.
It is the result of 14 years of producing security patterns with students and colleagues. Almost all of these patterns went through PLoP, EuroPLoP, AsianPLoP, or SugarLoafPLoP. Many of you have participated as shepherds or workshop commentators, the book owes something to
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