Towards an Enterprise-Ready Implementation of Artificial Intelligence-Enabled, Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts
This addresses the need for robust AI-blockchain integration in enterprise applications, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing conceptual work.
The paper tackles the challenge of implementing AI-enabled smart contracts for real-world enterprise use by presenting a new enterprise-class implementation and discussing its feasibility.
Blockchain technology and artificial intelligence (AI) are current hot topics in research and practice. However, the potentials of their combination have been studied just recently to a larger extend. While different use cases for combining AI and blockchain have been discussed, the idea of enabling blockchain-based smart contracts to perform "smarter" decisions by using AI or machine learning (ML) models has only been considered on the conceptual level so far. It remained open, how such AI-enabled smart contracts could be implemented in a robust way for real-world applications. Therefore, in this paper a new, enterprise-class implementation of AI-enabled smart contracts is presented and first insights regarding its feasibility are discussed.