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Schahram Dustdar

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arxivcs.LGcs.AI2026-07-18

Principled Direction-Free Intrinsic Motivation through Model-Free Epistemic Free-Energy Estimators

Alireza Furutanpey, Schahram Dustdar

Across environments with mixed sources of uncertainty, unsupervised reinforcement learning requires intrinsic motivation that does not precommit to a particular direction of surprise. Surprise minimization is scoped by design to ``unstable'' environments. Prediction-error curiosi…

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arxivcs.AIcs.ET2026-07-14

Agentic Service-Oriented Computing: A Manifesto for the Next Frontier of Service-Oriented Computing

Amin Beheshti, Rong N. Chang, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, Schahram Dustdar, Geoffrey Fox, et al.

The rapid emergence of LLM-powered autonomous and semi-autonomous agents is reshaping software systems from static, request-response components into goal-directed, adaptive, and tool-using computational actors. As these agents move from isolated cognitive prototypes into complex…

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