Paper accepted @ UCC

Title: Agentic Edge Intelligence: A Research Agenda

Authors: Lauri Lovén, Reza Farahani, Ilir Murturi, Stephan Sigg, Schahram Dustdar

Abstract: Agentic AI is rapidly transforming autonomous decision-making, yet its deployment across the edge-cloud continuum remains poorly understood. This paper introduces the concept of agentic edge intelligence, an emerging paradigm in which autonomous agents operate across the computing continuum to negotiate computational resources, data, and services within dynamic digital marketplaces. We position this concept at the intersection of edge intelligence, multi-agent systems, and computational economics, where distributed decision-making replaces centralized orchestration. The paper outlines key research challenges, including scalability, interoperability, market stability, and ethical governance, and proposes a research agenda addressing theoretical, architectural, and societal dimensions. By integrating mechanism design with trustworthy AI and edge computing, the real-time AI economy envisions a self-organizing infrastructure for efficient, transparent, and equitable resource exchange in future digital ecosystems.

Venue: International Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Paradigms for Next Generation Computing Evolution (INSPIRE 2025) in conjunction with the 18th IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing Conference (UCC)