Acceptance Criteria

This is the front-page to a discussion on acceptance criteria for the PLoP and EuroPLoP conference proceedings (the Pattern Languages of Program Design series published by AddisonWesley). The conference proceedings have different acceptance criteria than the conferences themselves, and it should require more work to get a paper accepted for the proceedings compared with getting it accepted for the conference.

Below you can find the discussion structured by topics (concrete patterns, pattern languages, tool papers, experience reports, meta-discussion). Each topic both contains a summary as well as the original messages. The messages have been chained and split in order to provide a more natural flow of discussion. I hope to have preserved the originator's intent, but you might wish to check this yourself.

This great cooperative documentation web allows everyone to extend these pages. Feel free to do so. I have provided a structure hoping it will help the casual reader, and would like to see it maintained. So, if you feel unsure about where and how to place your comment, call me for help.

DirkRiehle (June 1996).

Here is a full AcceptanceCriteriaSummary. These criteria will guide our discussion and decision about papers, but they are not hard and fast rules, and, most of all, they are far from being complete (should that be possible).

The following list of topics includes several categories for potential proceedings papers. Please keep in mind that the central conference focus is on patterns and that there is only little space for non-pattern papers.

Individual summaries and discussions:

single patterns (June 1996)
- SinglePatternsCriteriaSummary
- SinglePatternsCriteriaProtocol
pattern languages, systems, families, handbooks (June 1996)
- PatternLanguagesCriteriaSummary
- PatternLanguagesCriteriaProtocol
tool papers (June 1996)
- ToolPaperCriteriaSummary
- ToolPaperCriteriaProtocol
experience reports (June 1996)
- ?ExperienceReportCriteriaSummary
- ExperienceReportCriteriaProtocol
meta-discussion (June 1996)
- ?MetaDiscussionCriteriaSummary
- MetaDiscussionCriteriaProtocol
general criteria (June 1996)
- GeneralCriteriaSummary
- GeneralCriteriaProtocol

Tool papers discuss some method for applying patterns or some tools for using patterns in design or other domains. Meta-discussion papers are discussions about patterns. Both tool papers and meta-discussion papers overlap with experience reports, which are not sharply defined yet (and probably shouldn't be).

The OriginalCriteriaMail and the PreviousCriteriaPage are still available.

Last edited July 5, 1996
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