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Introduction |
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Software developers have long observed
that certain patterns recur and endure across different
applications and systems. The growing interest in Design
Patterns, Architectural Patterns, Analysis Patterns, Pedagogical
Patterns, and so on, represents an effort to catalog and better
communicate knowledge, providing handbooks of proven solutions
to common problems. SugarLoafPLoP
brings together researchers, educators, and practitioners whose
interests span a remarkably broad range of topics and who share
an interest in exploring the power of the pattern form.
SugarLoafPLoP invites you to add your expertise to the growing
corpus of patterns. SugarLoafPLoP focuses on improving the
expression of patterns. You will have the opportunity to refine
and extend your patterns with the help from knowledgeable and
sympathetic fellow pattern enthusiasts. You will also be able to
discuss applications of patterns in industry and academia.
Highlights of the conference include
tutorials, invited speakers, and workshops, all held in a beach
in the Brazilian Northeast, an area of great natural and
cultural beauty.
The SugarLoafPLoP'2008 program will be
divided in three different tracks:
* Writers' Workshop (WW) - papers that
document patterns and pattern languages will be workshopped in
the traditional PLoP format.
* Pattern Applications (PA) - papers
that explore the use and application of patterns, such as using
patterns in industry and academia tools for using patterns,
evaluation of productivity when using patterns, teaching and
consulting with patterns, and so on. Both practitioners from the
software industry and academics are invited to submit to this
track.
* Writing Patterns (WP) - papers of
newcomers who want to learn how to better elaborate an idea
intended to evolve to a pattern or pattern language. This is
more like a hands-on tutorial on writing patterns.
IMPORTANT
Papers
discussed at writer's workshop at this conference qualify for
submission to the new journal "Transactions on Pattern Languages
of Programming" published by Springer.
See
http://hillside.net/tplop/ and
http://www.springer.com/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-2-470309-0
for details of this journal.
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Localion |
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conference will be held at the
Porto d'Aldeia Resort,
in the beautiful seaside city of Fortaleza, in the northeast of
Brazil.
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General Chair |
Jerffeson Teixeira de Souza (Universidade
Estadual do Ceará - UECE, Brasil)
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Program Co-Chairs |
Rossana M. C. Andrade
(Universidade Federal do Ceará - UFC, Brasil)
Neil B. Harrison (Utah Valley University, USA) |
Local Arrangements |
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Program Committee |
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Eugene
Wallingford (U. Northern Iowa, USA)
Fabio Kon (IME/USP, Brazil)
Jerffeson Souza (UECE, BR)
Joseph Yoder (U. Illinois / The Refactory, Inc, USA)
Linda Rising (Independent Consultant, USA)
Neil Harrison (Utah Valley State College, USA)
Paulo Cesar Masiero (ICMC/USP, Brazil)
Rosana Braga (ICMC/USP, Brazil)
Rossana Andrade (DC/UFC, Brazil)
Sergio Soares (DSC/UPE, Brazil)
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Important Dates (NEW
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- Submissions due:
April
30th, 2008
- Shepherding starts:
June 02th, 2008
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Shepherding recommendations due:July
12th, 2008
- Notification of Acceptance:
July 17th, 2008
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Camera-ready for pre-proceedings:
August 2nd, 2008
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Conference dates: August 24th-27th, 2008
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Post-conference proceedings paper due: October
10th, 2008
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