As explicitly stated in the science and technology research agenda for the next 20 years of the US Air Force (USAF), the single greatest technical barrier of autonomous systems consists in developing V&V methods for establishing “certifiable trust in autonomous systems” [13]. Similar conclusions might be found on the second research roadmap of the SEAMS community - “the system itself must ensure that its desired behaviour is not compromised as a result of the adaptation process” [32] - and on the research agenda for assurance at runtime of the M@RT community - "a key challenge for the software engineering community is to develop runtime assurance techniques for self-adaptive systems that provide high performance, high confidence, and reconfigurable operation in the presence of uncertainties".