Franciscus Petrus Maria (Frank) Dignum (born 1961) is a Dutch

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. He is currently a Professor of Socially-Aware AI at

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and an associate professor at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of the

Utrecht University Utrecht University (UU; nl, Universiteit Utrecht, formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2018, it had an enrollme ...

. Dignum is best known from his work on

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s and fundamental aspects of social agents. Dignum received his PhD in 1989 from the

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under supervision of

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with the thesis, entitled "A Language for Modelling Knowledge Bases, Based on Linguistics, Founded in Logic." Dignum started his academic career as assistant professor and chair of department of Computer Science at the

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in 1990. In 1992 he moved back to Portugal and became assistant professor at the

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in Lisbon. Back in the Netherlands in 2000 he was appointed Associate professor at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of the

. His PhD students were Jurriaan van Diggelen (2006), and Hubertus Aldewereld (2007). He is married to Virginia Dignum, Professor of

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Selected publications

* Dignum, Frank.
Autonomous agents with norms
" ''Artificial Intelligence and Law'' 7.1 (1999): 69-79. * Castelfranchi, C., Dignum, F., Jonker, C. M., & Treur, J. (2000)
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.
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.
Organizing multiagent systems
" ''Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems'' 11.3 (2005): 307-360.

References

External links

Frank Dignum homepage
at Utrecht University {{DEFAULTSORT:Dignum, Frank 1961 births Living people Dutch computer scientists Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni Utrecht University faculty Umeå University faculty