This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 5th International Workshop on Distributed Computing for Emerging Smart Networks, DiCES-N 2025, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, during April 26-27, 2025.

The 7 full papers, 2 short papers and 1 invited paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. These papers focus on following topical sections: Artificial intelligence for safety and security; Artificial intelligence for e-health.