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The Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP®) conference is a premier event for pattern authors and pattern enthusiasts to gather, discuss and learn more about patterns and software development. PLoP® conferences are promoted and sponsored by The Hillside Group. The Hillside Group, through PLoP® and other activities, promotes the use of patterns and pattern languages to record, analyze, and improve software and its development, and supports any new practices that help achieve these goals.
Preliminary versions of these papers were workshopped at Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP) ’19 October 19-26, 2012, Tucson, Arizona, USA. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission. Copyright is held by the authors.
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Welcome to Tuscon and to PLoP 2021, the 19th Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP™) conference, a premier event for pattern authors and enthusiasts to gather, discuss, and learn more about patterns, programming, software development, and more!
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 (October 18th) at the Boot Camp, a special session aimed at people new to patterns and/or PLoP, led by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Joe Yoder. The main conference starts on Friday morning (October 19th).
The Writers' Workshops are the primary focus of our time at PLoP and it will be during these that we will discuss and review each other’s papers in a very fruitful way. We have five groups of six to seven papers each, which were selected from an initial set of 34 submissions after a considerable period of shepherding. Papers of the Writing Group will have the opportunity of being evolved during PLoP with the mentoring of experienced pattern writers.
Very exciting this year is our invited talks which will surely expand our horizons. Takashi Iba will share ideas from “"Pattern Language 3.0: Making Pattern Languages for Human Actions"”, Trygve Reenskaug will enlighten us on “On the Powerful Symbiosis of Man and Computer”, and Andrew P. Moore and David A. Mundie will present "Outside-the-Box Thinking for Patterns in an Evolving Organizational Security Domain".
There will be two afternoon focus groups and two workshops on Saturday where participants are active in exploring ideas and learning from peer discussions. There will also be 'Birds of a Feather' (BoF) sessions that let you informally organize discussions about topics you are interested in, as well as joint dinner opportunities.
And last but not least, we have the Games, a well-established and very important activity at PLoP. Guided by Robert Hanmer and Christian Kohls, the games will help us to break the ice, exercise our body and mind, collaborate better, and reinforce a community of trust. Some of the games have become ‘traditions', while others will be a surprise.
After the conference, the authors are strongly encouraged to further evolve their papers in order to accommodate 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 2012 Proceedings.
We would like to thank all authors, shepherds, reviewers, and Program Committee members for their time and collaboration with PLoP 2012. Thank you!
All of these words just to say that we wish you an amazing and productive time during PLoP!
Eduardo Guerra, PLoP 2012 Chair
Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP®) conference is a premier event for pattern authors and pattern enthusiasts to gather, discuss and learn more about patterns and software development.
Preliminary versions of these papers were work-shopped at Pattern Languages of Programming (PLoP) ’12 October 19th – 21st, 2012, Tucson, Arizona, USA. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission. Copyright is held by the authors.
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 the development of pattern languages, primarily about aspects of software: design and programming, testing, software architecture, user interface design, domain modeling, education, human relations, and software processes. Patterns and pattern languages for domains outside software are also welcome.
PLoP 2012 was held in Tucson, Arizona from October 19-21, 2012.
We invited contributions from practitioners and researchers on the following:
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 '12 conference hosted presentations, focus groups and workshops concerning a number of hot topics in the patterns community. Following are a list of presentations and collaborative events from PLoP 2012:
“Pattern Language 3.0: Making Pattern Languages for Human Actions”
by Takashi Iba“Outside-the-Box Thinking for Patterns in an Evolving Organizational Security Domain”
by Andrew P. Moore and David A. Mundie“On the Powerful Symbiosis of Man and Computer”
by Trygve Reenskaug“Focus Group: You Manage your Environment HOW?”
by Ralph Thiim and Lise Hvatum“Focus Group: Agile and Sustainable Architecture”
by Eduardo Guerra, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Joseph Yoder“Workshop: Dialogue Workshop using the Learning Patterns”
by Takashi Iba, Eri Shimomukai, Sumire Nakamura, Taichi Isaku, Ayano Tamefusa“Workshop: Patterns for Effective Shepherding”
by Neil Harrison
Writers' workshops are used by the pattern community to improve our patterns. These workshops are the primary focus of our time at PLoP and in them we discuss accepted papers. Below is the list of papers that were work-shopped at PloP 2012. Revised versions of the papers were submitted in March 2013 for inclusion in these proceedings.
The writers' workshops are organized by the workshop groups and the chairs as they were presented at PLoP.
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 before the conference. The program committee members help organize the conference, handle requests, and communicate with attendees.
We would like to thank all those who helped make PLoP 2012 a complete success.
| Program Chair |
Eduardo Guerra (Aeronautical Institute of Technology (ITA), São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil) |
|---|---|
| Local Operations |
Joseph Yoder (The Refactory Inc., USA) |
| Publications |
Pam Rostal (USA) |
| Publicity & Bootcamp |
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock (Wirfs-Brock Associates, USA) Joseph Yoder (The Refactory Inc., USA) |
| Games |
Christian Kohls (TH Köln, Germany) |
| Registration and Web Design |
Jason Frye (CU Local Biz, USA) |
| Submission System |
Michael Weiss (Carleton University, Canada) |