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On my list of to-do items before EuroPLoP is to clarify the acceptance criteria for the proceedings as good as possible. This will be valuable both for us editors as well as for the authors.

My list is rather short (which I think is good, since most of it will be based on common sense anyway).

Please comment on it and enhance it. I will compile them.

Dirk

Some acceptance criteria for proceedings:

Writing style

  • clear technical writing is preferred over academic diction
  • tool papers should prove their usefulness over technical novelty
  • consider length of pattern description carefully

Pattern form
  • no single form is imposed but consider using a known and proven form
  • if you use your own form, clearly motivate it and make sure that people don't get lost

"Used twice" rule
  • demonstrate pattern character by showing applications
  • best: refer to published designs
  • second best: refer to unpublished designs/projects from other people
  • third best: refer only to your own projects/designs
  • forth best (actually, pretty bad): no known uses

Additional quality criteria
  • try to put your pattern in context. which related/similar patterns exist?
  • this will help us editors a lot and will serve the community as a whole since
  • classification efforts will be undertaken.

 
Last edited June 27, 1996
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