Description: Agentic AI: Next-Generation Autonomous Intelligent Systems explores the emerging paradigm of AI systems capable of perceiving environments, reasoning about complex problems, planning tasks, making decisions, and taking autonomous actions to achieve defined goals. The book covers the foundations of agentic intelligence, autonomous agents, large language models, tool use, multi-agent systems, memory, planning, reasoning, reinforcement learning, and AI-driven workflows. It examines practical applications across business, healthcare, finance, education, robotics, cybersecurity, and intelligent automation. The book also discusses challenges related to reliability, safety, ethics, transparency, security, and human oversight. It serves as a valuable resource for students, researchers, developers, educators, and professionals exploring the future of autonomous intelligent systems.