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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 Portland, Oregon in the historic White Stag Building in conjunction with the PUARL conference. 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 five groups of five to six papers each, which were selected from an initial set of submissions after a considerable period of shepherding. Four of these papers were selected for a writing group and had the opportunity of being evolved during PLoP with the mentoring of an experienced pattern writer.
This year we did not have any invited talks as those were provided through our cooperation with the PUARL conference. Instead, we had a session of five-minute lightning talks presented by the PLoP attendees. There were also six focus groups / workshops where participants actively explored ideas, learning from peer discussions and activities. The focus group / workshops at PLoP 2018 were: "Writing Systemically Effective Patterns" by Helene Finidori, "Patterns: Taking Us to the Next Level” by Mary Lynn Manns, Joseph Yoder, Richard Gabriel "Representing Generative Wholeness with Pattern Language", by David Ing, "Pattern Language meets VR: Virtual experience and dialogue with patterns for living well with dementia" by Tomoki Kaneko, Tadamichi Shimogawara, Kazuki Toba, Yuka Banno, Takashi Iba, the "Style Writing Workshop: Creating a Style Language for family lifestyle", by Kazuki Toba, Shuichiro Ando, Rioha Kuroda, Tomoki Kaneko, Aimi Burgoyne, and Takashi Iba, "A Pattern Language Canvas for Real Time Innovation”, by Wolfgang Stark.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 2018 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 2018 possible!
Kyle Brown, PLoP 2018 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 2018 was held in Portland, Oregon from October 24 - 26, 2018.
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 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 2018 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 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 2018 a complete success.
| Program Chair |
Kyle Brown IBM Corporation, USA |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock Wirfs-Brock Associates, USA |
| Submission System |
Michael Weiss Carleton University, CA |