Dear Colleague,

As chairs of the minitrack "AI Ecosystems: Assistants, Agents and Platforms"" at the 59th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2026), we cordially invite you to consider submitting your research to this minitrack.

The AI Ecosystems minitrack is now organized continuously since 2021 and has over the years successfully attracted two paper sessions in average. It offers a platform for discussing the evolving landscape of AI-based assistants, agents, and platforms that are fundamentally reshaping our technological and social environments. In particular, we aim to deepen the understanding of how these technologies are evolving from isolated systems to complex, interconnected networks transforming industries and everyday life. We welcome original contributions addressing technological innovations and socio-technical implications in areas including (but not limited to):

1. Ecosystems and business models
- Innovative business models leveraging AI ecosystems
- Decision-making frameworks
- Human-centric design principles
- Regulation and governance challenges
2. Assistant and agent networks
- Collaborative problem-solving and coordination
- Communication mechanisms between agents
- Emergent behaviors and adaptive strategies
- Trust, reliability, and security
3. Platforms
- Structural analysis of platforms and their ecosystems
- Architecture and governance of networked digital platforms
- Applications across diverse sectors (e-health, education, finance, etc.)
4. Multimodal AI assistants and agents
- Integration of text, voice, and visual processing
- Generative models for multimodal content
- Design and evaluation of interaction paradigms
5. Autonomous AI capabilities
- Large-scale generative models in autonomous systems
- Risk assessment and human oversight strategies
- Digital co-worker functionalities
6. Extended reality integration
- AI assistants within virtual, augmented, and mixed reality
- Immersive interaction paradigms
- XR-enabled collaborative workspaces
7. Economic and societal impact
- Workforce transformations driven by AI integration
- Ethics, transparency, privacy, and trust concerns
- Broader social and policy implications

The minitrack is methodologically open and welcomes empirical research, theoretical research as well as practical and design-oriented research. It also offers the possibility to submit revised and extended versions to the Electronic Markets journal (www.electronicmarkets.org) after presentation at the conference.

We look forward to your contributions and to engaging with you at HICSS 2026! Please submit your paper until June 15, 2025 via the HICSS submission system at https://hicss.hawaii.edu/. For questions or further information, please contact the corresponding minitrack chair Rainer Schmidt (rainer.schmidt@hm.edu).

Best regards,
Rainer Alt, Rainer Schmidt, and Alfred Zimmermann (Minitrack Chairs)