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Welcome to PLoP 2009

Welcome to PLoP09, the 16th Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, a premier event for pattern authors and pattern enthusiasts to gather, discuss and learn more about patterns, pattern writing, pattern reviewing, shepherding, software development, collaboration, and more, much more.

 To accomplish this, the conference program offers a rich set of activities that altogether
promote a friendly and effective environment to share expertise, and to give and get feedback from fellow authors. The pre-conference activities start Thursday morning at the BootCamp, a special session aimed at people new to patterns and/or PLoP, led by Robert Hanmer and Linda Rising.

Writers' Workshops are the primary focus of our time at PLoP and it will be during them that we will discuss and review each other’s papers in a very fruitful way. We have four groups of five papers each, which were selected from an initial set of around 40 submissions, and after a considerable period of shepherding. Papers of the Writing Group will have in addition the opportunity of being evolved during PLoP with the mentoring of experienced pattern writers.

We are excited to have three Invited Talks which will be time to get inspired and
energized by the words and thoughts of Dr. Alistair Cockburn as he discusses "Making use of Context, Side-Effects and Overdose Effects in Larger Collections of Patterns," then we hear from Dave West as he speaks on "Transcendence and Passing Through the Gates," followed by Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder as they explore "Big Balls of Mud: Is This the Best that Agile Can Do?" But there is more. Other activities, such as the 'Birds of a Feather' (BoF), let you informally organize your own session about topics you are interested in, or to attend already organized working sessions. Just announce them or subscribe to them! We also have an Interactive Pattern Story workshop, a discussion of where patterns might be headed in the future (Is it True?), and an opportunity to learn Social Interaction Patterns and help the authors of the forthcoming book on that topic.

After the conference, the papers are strongly encouraged to be further evolved in order to
accommodate the suggestions for improvement gathered during the discussions at the
conference. A final version of evolved papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library as PLoP 2009 Proceedings.

And last but not least, we have Games, a well-established and very important activity at PLoP. Guided by George Platts on Friday, the games will help us all on ice-breaking, to exercise our body and mind, to collaborate better, and to reinforce a community of trust. Some of the games have become ‘traditions', while others will be a surprise.

 This year PLoP is not in the beautiful scenery of Allerton Park, the original PLoP location, where most conference editions took place. This one is co-located with the Agile conference, in the windy city otherwise known as Chicago, Illinois.

We would like to thank all authors, shepherds, reviewers, and Program Committee members for their time and collaboration with PLoP. Thank you!

All of these words just to say that we wish you an amazing and productive time during PLoP09!

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock

PLoP 2009 Chair

PLoP 2009 Conference Description

Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP) conference is a place for pattern authors to have their pattern languages reviewed by fellow authors. The purpose of PloP is to promote development of pattern languages on all aspects of software, including design and programming, software architecture, user interface design, domain modeling, and software process. Domain-specific patterns were encouraged for PLoP 2007.

PLoP 2009 was held in Chicago, IL, August 28-30.

We invited contributions from practitioners and researchers on:

• Patterns and pattern languages

• Critiques of patterns and pattern languages

• Research on patterns and pattern languages

• Case studies of the use of patterns and pattern languages

PLoP is different from other conferences. It is run in the "writers' workshop" style, as described in Richard Gabriel's book. Before the conference, authors interact with a "shepherd" who helps them improve their paper to make it as ready for PLoP as possible. A program committee reviews the papers for final acceptance after they have gone through the shepherding process. The writers workshops provide more feedback, and so authors revise their paper again after PLoP. The papers here are the version produced by authors after PLoP, not the ones reviewed at PLoP.

The PLoP '09 conference also hosted presentations concerning a number of hot topics in the patterns community. Following are a list of presentations from PLoP 2009:

• "Making use of Context, Side-Effects and Overdose Effects in Larger Collections of Patterns"
  by Dr. Alistair Cockburn
• "Transcendence and Passing Through the Gate"
  by Dave West
• "Big Balls of Mud: Is This the Best that Agile Can Do?"
  by Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder
• "Social Experience Design Patterns"
  by Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone
• "Interactive Pattern Story Design Workshop"
  by James Siddle
• "Is that true..." Discussion
  Christian Kohls and Stephanie Panke

The table of contents is organized by the workshop groups and the chairs as they were presented at PLoP.
 

Table of Contents

Writer's Workshop
'Architecture & Design' group, led by Brian Foote
"An Interactive Pattern Story about Remote Object Invocation" by James Siddle
"How to make your Enterprise Architecture Management endeavor fail!" by Sabine Buckl, Alexander M. Ernst, Florian Matthes , Christian Schweda
"A Pattern Language for Metadata-based Frameworks" by Eduardo Guerra , Jerffeson Souza , Clovis Fernandes
"Adaptive Object-Model Builder" by León Welicki, Joseph W. Yoder, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
'People' group, led by Linda Rising
"A Pattern Language for Clearing USA Passport and Customs"     by Marco Hernandez, Jeffrey Hutchinson, Robert Zack
"A Pattern Language for Screencasting" by Nicholas Chen
"Additional Patterns for Fearless Change II" by Mary Lynn Manns, Linda Rising
"Patterns for Sustainable Development" by Linda Rising, Karl Rehmer
"Is that true...? - Thoughts on the epistemology of patterns" by Christian Kohls, Stefanie Panke
"Learning Patterns: A Pattern Language for Active Learners " by Takashi Iba, Toko Miyake, Miyuko Naruse, Natsumi Yotsumoto
'Process' group, led by Robert Hanmer
"An Analysis Pattern for Invoice Processing" by Eduardo B. Fernandez, Xiaohong Yuan
"Composing Analysis Patterns to Build Complex Models: Flight Reservation" by Zhen Jiang, Eduardo B. Fernandez
"Patterns for Consistent Software Documentation" by Filipe Correia, Hugo Ferreira, Nuno Flores, Ademar Aguiar
'Security' group, led by Ralph Johnson
"Symmetric Encryption and XML Encryption Patterns" by Keiko Hashizume , Eduardo B. Fernandez
"Half-Push/Half-Polling" by Youngsu Son, Jin-Ho Jang, Jemin Jeon, Sangwon Ko,Hyuk-Joon Lee, Jungsun Kim
"A pattern language for service input data provisioning" by Geert Monsieur, Monique Snoeck, Wilfried Lemahieu
"Modeling User Interactions for (Fun and) Profit: Preventing Request Forgery Attacks on Web Applications" by Karthick Jayaraman, Grzegorz Lewandowski, Paul G. Talaga, Steve J. Chapin
"Goal-Oriented Security Threat Mitigation Patterns: A Case of Credit Card Theft Mitigation" by Sam Supakkul, Tom Hill, Ebenezer Akin Oladimeji, Lawrence Chung

Committees

The PLoP Conference would not be a success without the volunteer help of the shepherds and program committee members. The shepherds devote hours of their time to helping authors improve their papers pre-conference. The program committee members help organize the conference, handle requests, and communicate with attendees.