Pattern Languages of Programs

The flagship conference is called the Pattern Languages of Programs conference, abbreviated as PLoP. PLoP has been held in the U.S.A. since 1994.{{cite journal | first=Steven | last=Berczuk | title=Finding Solutions Through Pattern Languages | journal=IEEE Computer | publisher=IEEE | volume=27 | issue=12 | pages=75–76 |date=December 1994| doi=10.1109/2.335755 }} Until 2004 it was held annually at Allerton Park in Monticello, Illinois, a property of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Since then, its location has alternated between Allerton park and being co-located with OOPSLA, a large computer science conference, with the Agile Conference in 2009, and with PUARL in 2018. The 27th PLoP will be held in Keystone, Colorado.

Notable people who chaired the conference in the past include Ward Cunningham, Richard Gabriel, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides and Kent Beck.

PLoP (and several other Pattern Languages of Programs conferences) are sponsored by The Hillside Group, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that holds the PLoP trademark and the rights to the conference.

[http://patterns-wg.fuka.info.waseda.ac.jp/asianplop/ AsianPLoP] is the PLoP event for the Asian community, commonly featuring patterns in both English and Japanese language.

[http://hillside.net/chiliplop/ ChiliPLoP] is an annual conference featuring "hot topics" of the PLoP community. It is held in the U.S. since 1998.

Held since 1996 in Kloster Irsee, Germany (former monastery, now Swabian Conference and Education Centre).

Held in Australia or New Zealand.

[http://www.freeml.com/patterns/1189 MensorePLoP '2001], held on the island of Okinawa, Japan.

[http://www.miniplop.ita.br MiniPLoP'2011], held in IME/USP, São Paulo, Brazil.

[http://hillside.net/conferences/sugarloaf-plop SugarLoafPLoP], held in Brazil.

[http://hillside.net/conferences/viking-plop VikingPLoP], held mostly in the Scandinavian countries, but also moving around in Europe.

The conference proceedings are typically published locally as technical reports of a sponsoring university. From 1998 to 2007, EuroPLoP papers were published annually by the German publisher Universitätsverlag Konstanz.

Between 2008 and 2012 proceedings appeared in several places. CEUR-WS holds [http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-610/ papers for 2008] and [http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-566/ papers for 2009] (in addition a complete set of 2009 papers are available from Lulu.com in printed and PDF formats). A printed version of EuroPLoP 2012 papers are also available on Lulu.com.

Since 2012 a subset of EuroPLoP papers have been submitted to the ACM Digital Library.

After the conference, authors are given the chance to submit a revised paper for publication in the book series Pattern Languages of Program Design by Addison Wesley.

In 2007, an academic journal was started, called Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming. The editors-in-chief are James Noble and Ralph Johnson and the European editor is Uwe Zdun. The journal is published by Springer-Verlag.

• Pattern language where the name and concept arose from

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• The homepage of the [http://hillside.net/plop/ Pattern Languages of Programs] conferences, organized by the Hillside Group
• The LinkedIn group for [https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=8177204&trk=anet_ug_hm PLoP].
• The homepage of the [http://hillside.net/europlop/ European Pattern Languages of Programs] conference, organized by Hillside Europe
• Springer Verlag's homepage for the [https://www.springer.com/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-2-470309-0 Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming] journal
• Ward's wiki [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HistoryOfPatterns HistoryOfPatterns] including how PLoP came about

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