Frank Dignum

{{Short description|Dutch computer scientist}} '''Franciscus Petrus Maria (Frank) Dignum''' (born 1961) is a Dutch [[computer scientist]]. He is currently a Professor of Socially-Aware AI at [[Umeå University]] and an associate professor at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of the [[Utrecht University]]. Dignum is best known from his work on [[software agent]]s, [[multi-agent system]]s and fundamental aspects of social agents.<ref>Delgado, Jordi. "Emergence of social conventions in complex networks." ''Artificial intelligence'' 141.1 (2002): 171-185.</ref><ref>Wooldridge, Michael. ''An introduction to multiagent systems.'' John Wiley & Sons, 2009.</ref>

Dignum received his PhD in 1989 from the [[VU University Amsterdam]] under supervision of [[Reinder van de Riet]] with the thesis, entitled "A Language for Modelling Knowledge Bases, Based on Linguistics, Founded in Logic."<ref>{{MathGenealogy|id=133250}}</ref>

Dignum started his academic career as assistant professor and chair of department of Computer Science at the [[University of Swaziland]] in 1990. In 1992 he moved back to Portugal and became assistant professor at the [[Instituto Superior Técnico]] in Lisbon. Back in the Netherlands in 2000 he was appointed Associate professor at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of the [[Utrecht University]]. His PhD students were Jurriaan van Diggelen (2006), and Hubertus Aldewereld (2007).

He is married to [[Virginia Dignum]], Professor of [[Artificial intelligence]] at [[Umeå University]].

== Selected publications == * Dignum, Frank. "[http://www.egov.ufsc.br/portal/sites/default/files/anexos/6634-6633-1-PB.pdf Autonomous agents with norms]." ''Artificial Intelligence and Law'' 7.1 (1999): 69–79. * Castelfranchi, C., Dignum, F., [[Catholijn Jonker|Jonker, C. M.]], & Treur, J. (2000). [https://web.archive.org/web/20141220182157/http://www.agent.ai/doc/upload/200403/dign00_1.pdf Deliberative normative agents: Principles and architecture]. In ''Intelligent Agents VI. Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages'' (pp. 364–378). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. * Dignum, F., Morley, D., Sonenberg, E. A., & Cavedon, L. (2000). "Towards socially sophisticated BDI agents." In ''MultiAgent Systems,'' 2000. Proceedings. Fourth International Conference on (pp. 111–118). IEEE. * Dastani, Mehdi, Virginia Dignum, and Frank Dignum. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20141028013346/http://www.computingscience.nl/groups/IS/archive/mehdi/role.pdf Role-assignment in open agent societies]." ''Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems.'' ACM, 2003. * Vázquez-Salceda, Javier, Virginia Dignum, and Frank Dignum. "[http://www.lirmm.fr/~ferber/M2R/biblio/Organizing%20MAS.dignum.pdf Organizing multiagent systems]." ''Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems'' 11.3 (2005): 307–360.

== References == {{Reflist|2}}

== External links == * [http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~dignu101/ Frank Dignum homepage] at Utrecht University

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