# Frank Dignum

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Dutch computer scientist

**Franciscus Petrus Maria (Frank) Dignum** (born 1961) is a Dutch [computer scientist](/source/Computer_scientist). He is currently a Professor of Socially-Aware AI at [Umeå University](/source/Ume%C3%A5_University) and an associate professor at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of the [Utrecht University](/source/Utrecht_University). Dignum is best known from his work on [software agents](/source/Software_agent), [multi-agent systems](/source/Multi-agent_system) and fundamental aspects of social agents.[1][2]

Dignum received his PhD in 1989 from the [VU University Amsterdam](/source/VU_University_Amsterdam) under supervision of [Reinder van de Riet](/source/Reinder_van_de_Riet) with the thesis, entitled "A Language for Modelling Knowledge Bases, Based on Linguistics, Founded in Logic."[3]

Dignum started his academic career as assistant professor and chair of department of Computer Science at the [University of Swaziland](/source/University_of_Swaziland) in 1990. In 1992 he moved back to Portugal and became assistant professor at the [Instituto Superior Técnico](/source/Instituto_Superior_T%C3%A9cnico) 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](/source/Utrecht_University). His PhD students were Jurriaan van Diggelen (2006), and Hubertus Aldewereld (2007).

He is married to [Virginia Dignum](/source/Virginia_Dignum), Professor of [Artificial intelligence](/source/Artificial_intelligence) at [Umeå University](/source/Ume%C3%A5_University).

## Selected publications

- Dignum, Frank. "[Autonomous agents with norms](http://www.egov.ufsc.br/portal/sites/default/files/anexos/6634-6633-1-PB.pdf)." *Artificial Intelligence and Law* 7.1 (1999): 69–79.

- Castelfranchi, C., Dignum, F., [Jonker, C. M.](/source/Catholijn_Jonker), & Treur, J. (2000). [Deliberative normative agents: Principles and architecture](https://web.archive.org/web/20141220182157/http://www.agent.ai/doc/upload/200403/dign00_1.pdf). 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. "[Role-assignment in open agent societies](https://web.archive.org/web/20141028013346/http://www.computingscience.nl/groups/IS/archive/mehdi/role.pdf)." *Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems.* ACM, 2003.

- Vázquez-Salceda, Javier, Virginia Dignum, and Frank Dignum. "[Organizing multiagent systems](http://www.lirmm.fr/~ferber/M2R/biblio/Organizing%20MAS.dignum.pdf)." *Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems* 11.3 (2005): 307–360.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Delgado, Jordi. "Emergence of social conventions in complex networks." *Artificial intelligence* 141.1 (2002): 171-185.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Wooldridge, Michael. *An introduction to multiagent systems.* John Wiley & Sons, 2009.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Frank Dignum](https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=133250) at the [Mathematics Genealogy Project](/source/Mathematics_Genealogy_Project)

## External links

- [Frank Dignum homepage](http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~dignu101/) at Utrecht University

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