Preface. Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS 2007)

This workshop summary gives a brief overview of the workshop on "Architecting Dependable Systems" held in conjunction with DSN 2007. The main aim of this workshop is to promote cross-fertilization between the software architecture and dependability communities. We believe that both of them will benefit from clarifying approaches that have been previously tested and have succeeded as well as those that have been tried but have not yet been shown to be successful.