Blockchain Applications in Intelligent Systems

Scope and Objectives of the Workshop

This workshop aims to provide a focused interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners, and industry stakeholders to explore how blockchain technologies and smart contracts can be effectively integrated with intelligent systems to enhance transparency, traceability, security, and trust in complex digital and cyber-physical environments. The primary objective is to examine blockchain not merely as a distributed ledger, but as a foundational trust layer that supports automated decision-making, secure data sharing, and verifiable provenance in AI-driven and data-intensive systems.

By bringing together advances in smart contracts, NFTs, decentralized architectures, and intelligent algorithms, the workshop seeks to address fundamental challenges such as secure automation, accountability, anti-counterfeiting, privacy preservation, and system interoperability across heterogeneous domains.

The workshop further aims to foster discussion on practical deployments, architectural trade-offs, and emerging research directions at the intersection of blockchain and intelligent systems. Particular emphasis is placed on applications involving supply-chain traceability, digital asset management, IoT and edge intelligence, decentralized and federated learning, and governance-aware intelligent services, where trust, auditability, and resilience are critical requirements. Through technical contributions, case studies, and vision papers, the workshop intends to stimulate collaboration between academia and industry, identify open challenges related to scalability, performance, and sustainability, and outline future pathways for designing secure, transparent, and intelligent decentralized systems.

Topics of Interest

🔗 1. Blockchain Foundations for Intelligent Systems

Keywords: Blockchain architectures, decentralized systems, trust, transparency

Blockchain-enabled intelligent and autonomous systems
Permissioned vs. permissionless blockchains for AI-driven applications
Blockchain interoperability for intelligent ecosystems
Consensus mechanisms optimized for intelligent and data-driven systems
Blockchain as a trust layer for intelligent decision-making

📄 2. Smart Contracts and Automated Trust

Keywords: Smart contracts, automation, security, verification

Smart contract design for intelligent applications
Formal verification and security analysis of smart contracts
AI-assisted smart contract generation and auditing
Smart contracts for automated compliance and governance
Runtime monitoring and anomaly detection in smart contracts

🪙 3. NFTs and Digital Asset Intelligence

Keywords: NFTs, tokenization, digital identity, provenance

NFTs for digital identity, ownership, and authentication
Intelligent NFT systems for dynamic and programmable assets
NFTs for product provenance and anti-counterfeiting
Secure NFT marketplaces and fraud detection
NFTs combined with AI for adaptive rights management

🛡️ 4. Security, Privacy, and Trust in Decentralized Systems

Keywords: Security, privacy, trust, cryptography

Cryptographic primitives for secure and trustworthy systems
Privacy-preserving techniques (ZKPs, MPC, homomorphic encryption)
Secure identity management and authentication mechanisms
Attack detection and mitigation in blockchain networks
Threat modeling and risk assessment for decentralized systems

🧠 5. Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence Integration

Keywords: Intelligent systems, AI, machine learning, decentralization

Decentralized and federated learning over blockchain
Trusted data sharing for AI using blockchain
Explainable AI and accountability via immutable ledgers
AI-driven analytics for blockchain data
Incentive mechanisms for collaborative intelligence

📡 6. IoT, Cyber-Physical, and Intelligent Edge Systems

Keywords: IoT, edge intelligence, cyber-physical systems

Blockchain for secure IoT and sensor networks
Smart, wearable, Ubiquirous and Predictable Healthcare
Energy-efficient and Battery-aware IoT-5G/6G driven wearable edge devices for smart healthcare
5G/6G PHY Layer Authentication for Edge Devices
Integration of 5G/6G edge devices for real-time, decentralized intelligence
Edge AI with blockchain-based coordination
Secure data collection and validation from physical devices
Trust management in large-scale IoT ecosystems
Blockchain-enabled cyber-physical security

⚖️ 7. Governance, Compliance, and Ethical Intelligence

Keywords: Governance, regulation, ethics, compliance

Regulatory compliance through Smart Contracts
Transparent governance models using Blockchain
Ethical challenges in intelligent and autonomous systems
Auditable AI systems using immutable records
Policy-aware intelligent systems

📈8. Performance, Scalability, and Sustainability

Keywords: Scalability, performance, energy efficiency

Scalable blockchain solutions for intelligent workloads
Energy-efficient consensus and green blockchain
Performance evaluation of blockchain-based intelligent systems
Layer-2 solutions and off-chain computation
Sustainable architectures for AI–blockchain integration

🏭 9. Applications and Case Studies

Keywords: Real-world deployment, industry use cases

Intelligent tracking and monitoring of goods and assets
Provenance verification using blockchain and AI
Anti-counterfeiting technologies for luxury and industrial products
Sustainable and ethical supply chains enabled by blockchain
Blockchain and AI for healthcare, finance, and smart cities
Intelligent transportation and logistics systems
Digital twins and blockchain-based traceability
Industrial case studies and pilot deployments
Lessons learned from real-world implementations

Submission

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Submissions should be 6–12 pages in Springer LNCS format. All accepted papers will appear in post-conference proceedings with potential journal invitations (e.g., Expert Systems, Cluster Computing).

Format Requirements:

All submissions must follow the FLICS 2026 submission guidelines and use the conference template. Please consult the main conference website for detailed formatting instructions. Remember to add keywords to your submission.

Submission Guidelines

Regular Research Papers (7–8 Pages): Mature research contributions with substantial original work, complete evaluations, and clear contributions to the field.
Short / Position Papers (4–6 Pages): Work-in-progress, preliminary results, vision papers, or position statements on emerging challenges and opportunities.
Poster Papers (1–2 Pages): Undergraduate student contributions, early-stage ideas, prototypes, or course/research projects. Great for getting started!