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The Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP™) conference is the premier event for pattern authors and enthusiasts to gather, discuss, and learn more about patterns, programming, software development, and more!
This year PLoP was co-located with the SPLASH conference, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The conference is not traditional—the main event is a set of Writers’ Workshops where pattern papers are reviewed by fellow authors, led by expert workshop leaders.
All the participants had lots of opportunities to learn about patterns, pattern languages, pattern writing, and the quest for human-centered software creation in the panoply of PLoP activities: Writers’ Workshops, Focus Groups, BoF sessions, BootCamp, Games, shared meals and chit-chat.
The Writers' Workshops are the primary focus of our time at PLoP and they allow authors to discuss and review each other’s papers in a very fruitful way. We had five groups of five to seven papers each, which were selected from an initial set of 41 submissions after a considerable period of shepherding. One of these papers was selected for a writing group and had the opportunity of being evolved during PLoP with the mentoring of an experienced pattern writer.
Very exciting this year was our invited talks. Mary Lynn Manns has shared with us her experience on "Keeping A Pattern Language Alive", and Mary Shaw made us think about our "Progress Toward an Engineering Discipline of Software".
There were seven afternoon focus groups in total, where participants were active exploring ideas and learning from peer discussions, as well as 'Birds of a Feather' (BoF) sessions that let participants informally organize discussions about topics that they 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 Christian Kohls, the games 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 were 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 2015 Proceedings.
We would like to thank all authors, shepherds, reviewers, and members of the Program Committee for their time and collaboration. Thank you all for making PLoP 2015 possible!
Filipe F. Correia, PLoP 2015 Chair
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 2015 was held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from October 24 - 26, 2015.
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'15 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 2015:
“Keynote: Keeping A Pattern Language Alive”
“Keynote: Progress Toward an Engineering Discipline of Software”
“Workshop: Fearless Change Journey”
“Focus Group: Generative Processes of Community with the Fundamental Properties”
“Focus Group: Pattern Language of Layering”
“Focus Group: Developing an Open, Collaborative Design Pattern Repository”
Focus Group: Improving Writer’s Workshop by Introducing Checklists and Perspectives”
“Focus Group: Software Engineering Research Patterns Mining Focus Group”
“Focus Group: Security (and Related) Patterns”
The primary focus of our time at PLoP is the Writer’s Workshops where we discuss ways to improve the submitted papers. Below is the list of papers from PLoP 2015 that were revised and accepted for inclusion in the final proceedings. These paper titles reflect the final papers.
The table of contents is 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 pre-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 2015 a complete success.
| Conference Chair |
Filipe Figueiredo Correia University of Porto / ParadigmaXis, Portugal |
|---|---|
| Publicity |
Daniel Cukier University of São Paulo / Playax, Brazil |
| Bootcamp |
Filipe Figueiredo Correia University of Porto / ParadigmaXis, Portugal Joseph Yoder The Refactory Inc., USA |
| Games |
Christian Kohls TH Köln, Germany |
| Director of Local Operations |
Joseph Yoder The Refactory Inc., USA |