The Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2026 took place from January 6 to 10 on Maui, Hawaii. The Chair of Information & Market Engineering was represented at the conference by Prof. Dr. Christof Weinhardt and Alexander Grote.

Alexander Grote presented the joint paper “Prompting for the Unknown: Leveraging In-Context-Learning for Few-Shot Open Set Classification” co-authored with Prof. Dr. Anuja Hariharan and Prof. Dr. Christof Weinhardt. In addition, Prof. Dr. Weinhardt served as a minitrack chair together with Prof. Dr. Stefan Stieglitz and Dr. Jonas Fegert.

Beyond the engaging academic presentations and stimulating intellectual discussions, HICSS also provided valuable opportunities for networking. Reconnecting with long-standing colleagues and meeting new members of the research community once again proved to be an essential part of the conference experience.

More information can be found using the links below

Prompting for the Unknown: Leveraging In-Context-Learning for Few-Shot Open Set Classification: https://hdl.handle.net/10125/111547

Introduction to the Minitrack on Digital Democracy and Social Cohesion: https://hdl.handle.net/10125/112206