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Welcome to beautiful Oregon and to PLoP 2011, the 18th Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, a premier event for pattern authors and pattern enthusiasts to gather, discuss and learn more about patterns, pattern writing, pattern reviewing, shepherding, software development, collaboration, and more!
The conference program offers a rich set of activities that altogether promote a friendly and effective environment to share expertise, and to give and get feedback from fellow authors. The pre-conference activities start Thursday (October 20th) at the Boot Camp, a special session aimed at people new to patterns and/or PLoP, led by Robert Hanmer, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Joe Yoder. The main conference starts on Friday morning (October 21st). The Writers' Workshops are the primary focus of our time at PLoP and it will be during these that we will discuss and review each other’s papers in a very fruitful way. We have five groups of six to seven papers each, which were selected from an initial set of 41 submissions after a considerable period of shepherding. Papers of the Writing Group will have the opportunity of being evolved during PLoP with the mentoring of experienced pattern writers.
Very exciting this year is our invited talks which will surely expand our horizons. Richard P. Gabriel will share ideas from “A Life Spent on the Trampoline of Amnesia”, and Willem Larsen will enlighten us on “Fluency Hunting: the Pursuit of Excellence”.
There will be four afternoon focus groups on Saturday where participants are active in exploring ideas and learning from peer discussions. Our Sunday program is expanded into the afternoon to allow for a new event in 2011: 3 half-day PLoP workshops which will give the opportunity for more inspired discussions. There will also be 'Birds of a Feather' (BoF) sessions that let you informally organize discussions about topics you 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 Robert Hanmer and Christian Kohls, the games will 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 are 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 2011 Proceedings.
We would like to thank all authors, shepherds, reviewers, and Program Committee members for their time and collaboration with PLoP 2011. Thank you!
All of these words just to say that we wish you an amazing and productive time during PLoP!
Lise B. Hvatum, PLoP 2011 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 2011 was held in Portland, OR, USA from October 21 - 23, 2011.
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 '11 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 2011:
“A Life Spent on the Trampoline of Amnesia”
“Fluency Hunting: The Pursuit of Excellence”
“Focus Group: Educational Patterns”
“Focus Group: The Role of Software Design in Agile Development”
“Focus Group: Have all the Patterns been Mined?”
“Focus Group: Patterns for Internal Domain Specific Languages”
“Workshop: Language Hunting”
“Workshop: Emergent Software Design in Practice”
“Workshop: You Should Know this Pattern! aka Patterns Everyone Should Know!”
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 2011 that were revised and accepted for inclusion in the final proceedings. These paper titles reflect the final papers.
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 2011 a complete success.
| Conference Chair | Lise Hvatum (Schlumberger, USA) |
|---|---|
| Publicity & BootCamp |
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock (Wirfs-Brock Associates, USA) Bob Hanmer (Alcatel-Lucent, USA) Joseph Yoder (The Refactory Inc., USA) |
| Publications |
Joseph Yoder Lise Hvatum (Schlumberger, USA) |
| Director of Local Operations | Joseph Yoder |
| Registrations | Jason Frye (Hillside Group, USA) |
| Submission System | Michael Weiss (Carleton University, CA) |
| Web Design | Jason Frye |