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Frank Dignum

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Computer Science
Sweden
2026

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Computer Science

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

Frank Dignum publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Frank Dignum sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 491 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Frank Dignum D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Frank Dignum sits on this spectrum.

30–31 D-Index: 879 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 983 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 918 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 990 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 968 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 907 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 821 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 763 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 689 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 543 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 543 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 518 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 500 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 458 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 400 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 337 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 308 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 292 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 249 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 213 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 192 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 189 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 165 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 139 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 119 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 121 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 113 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 88 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 87 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 75 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 69 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 57 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 46 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 38 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 34 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 36 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 27 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 37 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 18 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 31 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 19 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 16 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 20 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 15 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 5 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 20 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 8 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 5 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 7 scientists 130 D-Index: 3 scientists 131+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

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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