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# cover letter

We are submitting a manuscript for consideration of publication in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, entitled "A Survey on the Adoption of Patterns for Engineering Software for the Cloud" where we set ourselves to understand how the industry is using existing pattern languages for the cloud by inquiring 102 practitioners.

We believe that this survey is of uttermost importance, as it tries to bridge the gap between the subjective experience of pattern writing by authors and the pattern community in general, and the objective usage of the professionals in the field. Contrary to previous studies, which focus mainly on business and technological aspects, we take as a starting point an existing pattern language and investigate (1) both their overall as well as each patterns relevance, (2) the extent to which product and company characteristics influence their adoption, and (3) a critical take on the ontology defined by the pattern language by analyzing connections between patterns derived from conditional probabilities. 

We confirm that this manuscript is original, has not been published before, and is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere.

The authors, 
Tiago Boldt Sousa
Hugo Sereno Ferreira
Filipe Figueiredo Correia
