AsianPLoP 2011: 2nd Asian Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs
Oct 5-7, 2011, Tokyo, Japan

AsianPLoP is a PLoP ® Conference sanctioned by the Hillside Group.
PLoP is a registered trademark of The Hillside Group.

What's New

• (Oct 8) The conference was successfully over! Photos of AsianPLoP2011 are available. Thank you, Kato-san!
• (Sep 30) Location page has been updated.
• (July 13) Program has been updated. Registration is available.
• (June 9) The registration due has been updated to September 16.
• (June 1) The schedule has been updated (Oct 5-7).
• (Mar 12) The conference is postponed, due to the disaster in Japan.
• (Mar 3) Program has been updated. Papers are available.
• (Feb 27) Registration is available.
• (Feb 26) Accommodation is available.
• (Nov 9) Submission deadline has been extended to Dec 27.
• (Oct 17) AsianPLoP 2011 website has been opened.
• (Oct 17) Result of AsianPLoP 2010 is available.
• (Feb 20) Program (in outline) is available.

Objective and Motivation

A pattern is an abstracted repeatable solution to a commonly occurring problem under a certain context with forces. Patterns help people to share experience-based proven solutions and design products, manage processes, projects and organizations, and communicate each other more efficiently and effectively.

Asian Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (AsianPLoP) is a premier event for pattern authors and users to gather, discuss and learn more about patterns and software development in the Asia region as well as other regions. The purpose of AsianPLoP is to promote development of patterns, pattern languages, technologies and experiences of patterns primarily about software; however, these for domains outside software are also welcome.

AsianPLoP 2011 solicits paper submissions written in both of English and Japanese; English papers and Japanese ones will be discussed in different sessions. Both practitioners from the industry and academics are invited to submit their papers. The conference solicits the papers for the following different sessions. Details can be found in Topics and Submission.

• Writers' Workshop - papers that document patterns and pattern languages will be workshopped in the traditional PLoP format. Papers that explore theories, techniques, applications, tools and case studies in patterns and related areas such as agile developments are also welcome.
• Writing Group - 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.

Main conference will take place in the School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, on March 17-18. Moreover we have a plan to conduct an excursion to a place designed by a Pattern Language on March 19.

Sponsors and Contact Us

The conference is co-sponsored by the GRACE Center of the National Institute of Informatics of Japan and Waseda University Global Software Engineering Laboratory.

The conference is supported by GRACE Center of the National Institute of Informatics (NII), eXtreme Programming Japan Users Group (XPJUG), and Agile Process Association.

Please contact us at: asianplop [at] sse-project.org .
AsianPLoP hashtags on twitter is #asianplop.