Modularity issues tackled by Separation of Concerns (SoC) techniques such as computational reflection, aspect-oriented programming (AOP), subject-oriented programming (SOP) and context-oriented programming (COP) have been successfully employed to produce systems whose concerns are well separated, thereby facilitating reuse and evolution of system components or systems as a whole.

The Programming for Separation of Concerns (PSC) track at the 2014 Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) aims to explore challenges that developers currently face when using SoC techniques during development and evolution.

We aim at finding out whether solutions based on SoC techniques can be appropriate for dealing with distributed and parallel systems, such as cloud computing and GPGPUs. Moreover, we want to assess how to change legacy systems in order to improve their modularity, hence the techniques helping rejuvenation. In this sense, we encourage submissions related with strategies that aim at tackling the discovery of faults related with distribution, parallelisation and ageing. The track will address questions like: How such techniques cope with architectural erosion? Are these techniques helpful to deal with evolution of legacy systems? Is there a need to extend current technologies supporting SoC?

Authors are invited to submit original papers. Submissions are encouraged, but not limited, to the following topics:
- Software architectures
- Configuration management systems
- Software reuse and evolution of legacy systems
- Performance issues for metalevel and aspect-oriented systems (AOSD)
- Testing of aspect-based systems
- Mining of faults on aspect-based systems
- Consistency, integrity and security
- Generative approaches
- Analysis and evaluation of software systems
- Experiences in using reflection, composition filters, aspect- subject- and feature- orientation, and change-oriented-software-engineering
- Reflective and aspect-oriented middleware for distributed systems
- Language support for aspect-oriented and SoC systems
- Modelling of SoC techniques to allow predictable outcomes from their use
- Formal methods for metalevel and SoC systems

Accepted papers will be published in the annual conference ACM proceedings. Please refer to the PSC track website for details on the submission.