Authors should submit an electronic copy in English by the aformentioned deadline. There is no limit on the length of Patterns submissions; they should be as long as necessary to fully describe the patterns (most papers submitted to previous PLoPs have been 20 pages or less).
To ease the shepherding and workshop process, for submissions longer than 10 pages (2000 words) please designate a 10 page section to be reviewed in detail. When preparing your submission, remember that readers often prefer concise writing. Please contact the program chair if you have any other questions about the paper length, or how to select sections for detailed review.
This year we'll try to assemble the full proceedings on CD-ROM. To facilitate this process, we require all submissions to be either in PDF or Word format. You can generate PDF in several ways:
Submissions must be accompanied by an ASCII text file containing the following information.
ftp://brain.cs.uiuc.eduYou should create a directory name based upon the last name of the contact author for your paper. If a directory by that name is already present, append a digit to the name to distinguish it from the existing directory. Make sure that you have indicated the BINARY setting to your ftp client before you transmit your submission.
For example, an author named "Alexander" might do the following:
ftp brain.cs.uiuc.edu USER anonymous PASS anything MKDIR Alexander CD Alexander BINARY PUT Alexander.pdf PUT Alexander.txt QUITwhere the Alexander.pdf is the paper he is submitting and Alexander.txt is his contact info document.
Should you want to resubmit an updated version of your paper, you
will have to use a different name-- for security reasons, the ftp
server doesn't allow deletes, renames or overwrites. For example, to
update Alexander.pdf you will upload
Alexander1.pdf (in the same directory). Once submission
closes, we will use the file with the highest submission number. There
is no need to resubmit the ASCII text file or to notify us about the
update.
You should notify us that your submission has been made by sending email with the subject
PLoP99 Submission: Yournamewhere Yourname is the directory name you used in the Submission Process - Step One, to:
plop-99-submissions@jerry.cs.uiuc.edu
Please paste your contact info document information into the email message.
Submissions will be acknowleged by email once your submission has been processed. If you do not receive an email acknowledgement within three business days of your submission, please contact us at the email address above.
A fine place to start is "A Pattern Language for Pattern Writing" by Gerard Meszaros and Jim Doble, which simultaneously presents patterns for writing patterns, and examples of their use. This paper appeared in the PLoPD-3 book.