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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.
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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 held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada at the Strathmere retreat near Ottawa. There are other xPLoP conferences such as AsianPLoP EuroPLoP, SugarloafPLoP, and VikingPLoP which are held in the other continents. 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 four groups of five to six papers each, which were selected from an initial set of 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.
In addition to the Writers' Workshops, we had three invited plenary talks: "A Search for Beauty / A Struggle with Complexity: Christopher Alexander" by Richard Gabriel, "Keeping Patterns Alive with Apps" by Mary Lynn Manns, Christian Kohls, Florian Herborn, and Sebastian Quast, and "Human Principles and Software Design" by Robert Biddle. There were also four focus groups / workshops where participants actively explored ideas, learning from peer discussions and activities. The focus group / workshops at PLoP 2019 were: "Creating apps for patterns" by Mary Lynn Manns, Christian Kohls, Florian Herborn, and Sebastian Quast, "Using machine learning to discover patterns of architectural changes associated with bugs" by Alla Zakurdaeva, and Michael Weiss, "Hillside People" by Sharath Musunoori, and Lise Hvatum, and "Everyday Security Behaviour in the Real World" by Eric Spero, and Robert Biddle.
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 bodies and minds, collaborate better, and reinforce our community of trust.
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 these evolved papers are published in the ACM Digital Library as PLoP 2019 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 2019 possible!
Michael Weiss, PLoP 2019 Chair
The Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP) conference is a venue 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 2019 was held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada from October 7 - 10, 2019.
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.
Writers’ workshops help the pattern community to improve their patterns and pattern languages. These workshops are the primary focus at PLoP, and in them we discuss accepted papers. Below is the list of papers that were workshopped at PLoP 2019 and are included in these proceedings.
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 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 2019 a complete success.
| Program Chair |
Michael Weiss Carleton University, Canada |
|---|---|
| Conference Chair |
Joe Yoder The Refactory, Inc., USA |
| Publicity |
Filipe Figueiredo Correia University of Porto, Portugal |
| Bootcamp |
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock Wirfs-Brock Associates, USA Joseph Yoder The Refactory Inc., USA |
| Games |
Christian Kohls TH Köln, Germany |
| Director of Local Operations |
Michael Weiss Carleton University, Canada |
| Submission System |
Michael Weiss Carleton University, Canada |