Asian Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, People & Practices
11th AsianPLoP Conference
“AI & Patterns”
March 28-31, 2025
Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan
ABOUT AsianPLoP
The Asian Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, People & Practices
Asian Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (AsianPLoP) is a premier event for pattern enthusiasts to gather, discuss, and learn. Originally focused on software-related patterns and pattern languages, PLoP has expanded into all aspects of the built world—anything that is designed and made by people, including organizations, culture, and individual practice. The recent, wide-ranging developments led the Hillside Group to rename PLoP to Pattern Languages of Programs, People & Practices starting in 2024.
Now, we are at another juncture patterns and pattern languages can help making a difference. In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has developed rapidly, especially with large language models (LLMs) permeating various fields. Utilizing pattern languages to describe the design of AI and LLM-based applications across different domains will be an important research direction. Therefore, the major theme of AsianPLoP 2025 will focus on AI Patterns and related issues. We hope to bring together researchers from Asia and other regions of the world come together to explore this new direction. AsianPLoP 2025 will be hosted by Tunghai University in Taiwan and co-organized by the Software Engineering Association of Taiwan (SEAT).
AsianPLoP 2025 welcomes paper authors and nonauthors alike! Writers Workshops offer authors feedback on their papers while Imagination Run Wild sessions offer everyone, including nonauthors, a chance to share in a variety of session formats.
AsianPLoP brings together practitioners and researchers whose interests span a broad range of topics, but all of whom share an interest in exploring the power of patterns. AsianPLoP invites you to add your expertise to the growing body of patterns. At AsianPLoP we focus on improving the written expression of patterns (both their form and content) through writers’ workshops. We also welcome proposals for focus group workshops. Bring it on!
Whether you’re a pattern novice, an expert, interested in sharing, or curious about learning, you are welcome to contribute to the AsianPLoP 2025 program with a paper and/or a focus group workshop.
AsianPLoP 2024 proceedings can be found here.
IMPORTANT DATES*
December 31 – DUE: Paper submissions
January 7 – Acceptance for shepherding. Paper authors will be notified.
February 1 – DUE: Focus group proposals
February 18 – DUE: Updated paper
February 26 – Notifications of decisions sent for all submissions
March 14 – Author registration ends (registration fee increases on March 14)
DUE: All paper authors and Focus group facilitators must register by March 14
March 21 – DUE: Conference version of paper
March 28-31 – AsianPLoP Conference Days
April 21 – DUE: Proceedings version of paper
*Dates are AoE (Anytime on Earth)
What Past AsianPLoP
Attendees Are Saying
Anja Bertels
My first AsianPLoP (2024) was my third PLoP and one of the best overall conference experiences I ever had. The workshops left me inspired and full of new motivation and ideas, the influence of people I met enriched the quality of my writing and discovering a whole new country was the cherry on top.“
Kiyoka Hayashi
This was my first AsianPLoP. I was genuinely surprised to see so many researchers and practitioners in Asia utilizing patterns in such meaningful ways. It was exciting to make new connections with “friends” bonded by pattern languages!”
HISTORY
The PLoP Conferences
The Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, People, and Practices (PLoP) was established thirty years ago by The Hillside Group. It gathers people who wish to improve the quality of life through designing and using social and technical systems in a more humane way, effectively articulating professional and other creative practices, and sharing this tacit knowledge more broadly. To achieve this, the conference promotes the use of patterns and pattern languages, as well as the underlying theory of the nature of order.
Originating in the work of Christopher Alexander on building architecture, these ideas have been further developed in computer science, fundamentally changing the perception of software development. Much of the pioneering work in this area originated at this and other PLoP conferences throughout the world. Patterns and pattern languages have expanded to many other areas, including art, well-being, learning, psychology, organizational development and change, sociology, and anthropology. AsianPLoP started in 2010 in the spirit of PLoPs with the support of The Hillside Group and encourages a variety of submissions regardless of the area they target.
MISSION
The Hillside Group
The mission of the Hillside Group is to improve the quality of life and society as a whole. This includes architects, developers, managers, owners, workers, educators, students, and more. Understanding and helping the human element is critical for achieving success. The Hillside Group believes in making processes and design more humane by paying attention to real people and existing practices.
The Hillside Group promotes the use of patterns and pattern languages to record, analyze, and share knowledge to help achieve its mission. The Hillside Group sponsors a variety of activities to achieve this mission—organizing workshops, hosting PLoP (pattern) conferences, and producing publications for discussing, recording, and documenting successful practices.
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