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Frank Dignum

Frank Dignum

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Computer Science
Sweden
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
67
Citations
13352
World Ranking
2242
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Frank Dignum is affiliated with Umeå University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the fields of computer science and social sciences, with a focus on artificial intelligence and social simulation. Their work intersects several subfields including artificial intelligence, sociology and political science, modeling and simulation, statistical and nonlinear physics, and management science and operations research.

Their research topics span a variety of areas, notably multi-agent systems and negotiation, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, artificial intelligence in games, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, opinion dynamics and social influence, reinforcement learning in robotics, and terrorism, counterterrorism, and political violence.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Frank Dignum are:

  • Analysing the Combined Health, Social and Economic Impacts of the Corona Virus Pandemic Using Agent-Based Social Simulation, 2020, Publications (Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts, and Design)
  • A Research Agenda for Hybrid Intelligence: Augmenting Human Intellect With Collaborative, Adaptive, Responsible, and Explainable Artificial Intelligence, 2020, Computer
  • Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment, 2021, CINECA IRIS Institutional research information system (University of Pisa)
  • Why bad coffee? Explaining BDI agent behaviour with valuings, 2021, Artificial Intelligence
  • Human-AI coevolution, 2024, Artificial Intelligence

Frequent co-authors in Frank Dignum's collaborations include Virginia Dignum, Maarten Jensen, Loïs Vanhée, Mehdi Dastani, and Christian Kammler.

Their work has been published frequently in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, and Minds and Machines.

In addition to journal articles, Frank Dignum has contributed to several books published by Springer Science+Business Media and Springer International Publishing. Notable book publications include:

  • Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Complex Systems Simulation. The PAAMS Collection, 2022
  • Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Cognitive Mimetics. The PAAMS Collection, 2023
  • Social Informatics, 2020
  • Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Social Good. The PAAMS Collection, 2021
  • Social Simulation for a Crisis, 2021

Best Publications

  • Deliberative Normative Agents: Principles and Architecture.

    C. Castelfranchi;F. Dignum;C. M. Jonker;J. Treur

  • On the formal specification of electronic institutions

    Marc Esteva;Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar;Carles Sierra;Pere García

  • Autonomous agents with norms

    Frank Dignum

  • A Research Agenda for Hybrid Intelligence: Augmenting Human Intellect With Collaborative, Adaptive, Responsible, and Explainable Artificial Intelligence

    Zeynep Akata;Dan Balliet;Maarten de Rijke;Frank Dignum

  • Role-assignment in open agent societies

    Mehdi Dastani;Virginia Dignum;Frank Dignum

  • Organizing Multiagent Systems

    Javier Vázquez-Salceda;Virginia Dignum;Frank Dignum

  • Towards socially sophisticated BDI agents

    F. Dignum;D. Morley;E.A. Sonenberg;L. Cavedon

  • Autonomous Norm Acceptance

    Rosaria Conte;Cristiano Castelfranchi;Frank Dignum

  • A Programming Language for Cognitive Agents: Goal Directed 3APL

    Mehdi Dastani;M. Birna van Riemsdijk;Frank Dignum;John-Jules Ch. Meyer

  • OMNI: introducing social structure, norms and ontologies into agent organizations

    Virginia Dignum;Javier Vázquez-Salceda;Frank Dignum

  • Trends in Agent Communication Language

    Brahim Chaib-draa;Frank Dignum

  • Advances in Agent Communication

    Frank Dignum

  • Modelling Agent Societies: Co-ordination Frameworks and Institutions

    Virginia Dignum;Frank Dignum

  • Agent Theory for Team Formation by Dialogue

    Frank Dignum;Barbara Dunin-Keplicz;Rineke Verbrugge

  • Designing a Deontic Logic of Deadlines

    Jan M. Broersen;Frank Dignum;Virginia Dignum;John-Jules Ch. Meyer

  • Issues in Agent Communication

    Frank Dignum;Mark Greaves

  • From Desires, Obligations and Norms to Goals

    F.P.M. Dignum;D. Kinny;L. Sonenberg

  • Implementing norms in multiagent systems

    Javier Vazquez-Salceda;Huib Aldewereld;Frank Dignum

  • Dynamic Reorganization of Agent Societies

    M.V. Dignum;E. Sonenberg;F.P.M. Dignum

  • Towards Socially Sophisticated BDI Agents

    Frank P.M. Dignum;David N. Morley;Liz Sonenberg;Lawrence Cavedon

  • B2B Negotiation Support: the need for a communication perspective

    H. Weigand;M. Schoop;A. de Moor;F.P.M. Dignum

  • Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce, The European AgentLink Perspective.

    Frank Dignum;Carles Sierra

Frequent Co-Authors

Virginia Dignum
Virginia Dignum Umeå University
John-Jules Ch. Meyer
John-Jules Ch. Meyer Utrecht University
Mehdi Dastani
Mehdi Dastani Utrecht University
Iyad Rahwan
Iyad Rahwan Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Catholijn M. Jonker
Catholijn M. Jonker Delft University of Technology
Carles Sierra
Carles Sierra Spanish National Research Council
Frances M. T. Brazier
Frances M. T. Brazier Delft University of Technology
Rosaria Conte
Rosaria Conte National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Geert-Jan Houben
Geert-Jan Houben Delft University of Technology
Cristiano Castelfranchi
Cristiano Castelfranchi National Research Council (CNR)

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