Architecting critical systems

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Architecting critical systems has become increasingly vital across commercial, governmental, and industrial sectors. Emerging software applications involve complexities related to entire systems or their components. Consequently, effective methods, techniques, and tools for constructing, testing, analyzing, and evaluating architectures for these systems are essential. These approaches must tackle issues of dependability and security, focusing on development, deployment, and evolution. The newly established ISARCS symposium serves as a unique platform for exchanging insights on the theory and practice of architecting critical systems. Such systems are defined by the significant consequences that faults or attacks may incur, necessitating assurance that they deliver specified services reliably and securely. Dependability and security attributes cannot be viewed in isolation; architecting critical systems requires balancing these attributes with other system requirements. The symposium convened four communities focused on dependability, safety, security, and testing/analysis, each contributing to the architecting of critical systems from their respective viewpoints. This event effectively merged three previous workshops: the Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS), the Workshop on the Role of Software Architecture for Testing and Analysis (ROSATEA), and the Workshop on Views on Designing Complex Architectures.