Trust, -- but Verify! Emergence, Trust and Quality in Intelligent Systems

Trust, --but Verify!, a well known political dictum was enunciated by the late Ronald Reagan (United States President, 1980-88) in his attempts to break down barriers and integrate the communist (political, economic and nuclear) systems into a capitalist world. Nowhere is this dictum more appropriate than in the context of attempts to enable information integration and service composition for creation and deployment of intelligent systems. A representative domain that presents complex and interesting challenges is that of biomedical information and research, and is also a prime candidate for application of semantics-based approaches.