Dr. F.P.M. (Frank) Dignum

Buys Ballotgebouw
Princetonplein 5
Kamer BBL-517
3584 CC Utrecht

Dr. F.P.M. (Frank) Dignum

Associate Professor
Responsible AI
+31 30 253 9109
f.p.m.dignum@uu.nl

Publications

2023

Scholarly publications

Melchior, A., Dignum, F., & Yolum, P. (Accepted/In press). Policy Development for Societal Challenges: The Collaborative Agent Based Modelling Policy Framework. In 18th Social Simulation Conference Proceedings

2022

Scholarly publications

Shirzadehhajimahmood, S., Prasetya, I. S. W. B., Dignum, F., & Dastani, M. (2022). An Online Agent-Based Search Approach in Automated Computer Game Testing with Model Construction. arXiv.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/429172/2211.06936v1.pdf?sequence=1
Shirzadehhajimahmood, S., Prasetya, I. S. W. B., Dignum, F., & Dastani, M. (2022). An online agent-based search approach in automated computer game testing with model construction. In A. Kiss, B. Marin, & M. Saadatmand (Eds.), A-TEST 2022 - Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Automating Test Case Design, Selection and Evaluation, co-located with ESEC/FSE 2022 (pp. 45-52). (A-TEST 2022 - Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Automating Test Case Design, Selection and Evaluation, co-located with ESEC/FSE 2022). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3548659.3561309
Erdogan, E., Dignum, F., Verbrugge, R., & Yolum, P. (2022). Computational Theory of Mind for Human-Agent Coordination. In N. Ajmeri, A. Morris Martin, & B. T. R. Savarimuthu (Eds.), Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems XV. COINE 2022. (pp. 92-108). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 13549). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20845-4_6
Erdogan, E., Dignum, F., Verbrugge, R., & Yolum, P. (2022). Abstracting Minds: Computational Theory of Mind for Human-Agent Collaboration. In S. Schlobach, M. Pérez-Ortiz, & M. Tielman (Eds.), HHAI2022: Augmenting Human Intellect (pp. 199-211). (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; Vol. 354). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA220199
Ansari, S. G., Prasetya, I. S. W. B., Dastani, M., Dignum, F., & Keller, G. (2022). An Appraisal Transition System for Event-Driven Emotions in Agent-Based Player Experience Testing. In N. Alechina, M. Baldoni, & B. Logan (Eds.), Engineering Multi-Agent Systems - 9th International Workshop, EMAS 2021, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 156-174). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13190 LNAI). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97457-2_9

2021

Scholarly publications

Dignum, F., Vanhée, L., Jensen, M., Kammler, C., Mellema, R., Lorig, F., Păstrăv, C., Hurk, M. V. D., Melchior, A., Ghorbani, A., Bruin, B. D., Kreulen, K., Verhagen, H., & Davidsson, P. (2021). Conclusions. In F. Dignum (Ed.), Social Simulation for a Crisis: Results and Lessons from Simulating the COVID-19 Crisis (1 ed., pp. 427-438). (Computational Social Sciences). Springer Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76397-8_16
Dignum, F., Vanhée, L., Jensen, M., Kammler, C., Mellema, R., Lorig, F., Păstrăv, C., van den Hurk, M., Melchior, A., Ghorbani, A., de Bruin, B., Kreulen, K., Verhagen, H., & Davidsson, P. (2021). Introduction. In F. Dignum (Ed.), Social Simulation for a Crisis: Results and Lessons from Simulating the COVID-19 Crisis (1 ed., pp. 3-13). (Computational Social Sciences). Springer Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76397-8_1
Melchior, A., Dignum, F., & Ruiz Carmona, M. (2021). A Closer Look at Dutch Policy Development. In P. Ahrweiler, & M. Neumann (Eds.), Advances in Social Simulation.: Proceedings of the 15th Social Simulation Conference: 23–27 September 2019 (pp. 383-395). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61503-1_37
Dignum, F., Jensen, M., Kammler, C., Melchior, A., & van den Hurk, M. (2021). Challenges and Issues for Social Simulations for Crises. In F. Dignum (Ed.), Social Simulation for a Crisis: Results and Lessons from Simulating the COVID-19 Crisis (pp. 409-426). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76397-8_15
Melchior, A., Dignum, F., & Yolum, P. (2021). Purposes of and Principles for ABM's in Policy Development: A Proposal. 33-34. Abstract from Social Simulation Conference 2021, Cracow/Online.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/429600/Extended_abstract_SSC2021_CC.pdf?sequence=1
Shirzadehhajimahmood, S., Prasetya, I. S. W. B., Dignum, F., Dastani, M., & Keller, G. (2021). Using an Agent-based Approach for Robust Automated Testing of Computer Games. 1-8. Paper presented at Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Automating TEST Case Design, Selection, and Evaluation (A-TEST ’21)., Athens , Greece. https://doi.org/10.1145/3472672.3473952

2020

Scholarly publications

Nanni, M., Andrienko, G. L., Barabási, A-L., Boldrini, C., Bonchi, F., Cattuto, C., Chiaromonte, F., Comandé, G., Conti, M., Coté, M., Dignum, F., Dignum, V., Domingo-Ferrer, J., Ferragina, P., Giannotti, F., Guidotti, R., Helbing, D., Kaski, K., Kertész, J., ... Vespignani, A. (2020). Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment. Transactions on Data Privacy, 13(1), 61-66. http://www.tdp.cat/issues16/abs.a389a20.php
Prasetya, I. S. W. B., Dastani, M., Prada, R., Vos, T. EJ., Dignum, F., & Kifetew, F. (2020). Aplib: Tactical Agents for Testing Computer Games. In C. Baroglio, J. F. Hubner, & M. Winikoff (Eds.), Engineering Multi-Agent Systems : 8th International Workshop , EMAS 2020, Auckland, New Zealand, May 8–9, 2020, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 12589, pp. 21-41). (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66534-0
Prada, R., Prasetya, I. S. W. B., Kifetew, F., Dignum, F., Vos, T. E. J., Lander, J., Donnart, J. Y., Kazmierowski, A., Davidson, J., & Fernandes, P. M. (2020). Agent-based Testing of Extended Reality Systems. In Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 13th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2020 (pp. 414-417). [9159086] IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICST46399.2020.00051
Akata, Z., Balliet, D., de Rijke, M., Dignum, F. P. M., Dignum, V., Eiben, G., Fokkens, A., Grossi, D., Hindriks, K. V., Hoos, H., Hung, H., Jonker, C., Monz, C., Neerincx, M., Oliehoek, F., Prakken, H., Schlobach, S., van der Gaag, L. C., van Harmelen, F., ... Welling, M. (2020). A Research Agenda for Hybrid Intelligence: Augmenting Human Intellect With Collaborative, Adaptive, Responsible, and Explainable Artificial Intelligence. Computer, 53(8), 18-28. https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2020.2996587

2018

Scholarly publications

Brouwer, R., van den Akker, J. M., Dignum, F. P. M., & Vermeiden, W. (2018). Forecast-based Optimization of Islanded Microgrids. In 2018 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT Europe)
Heidari, S., Dignum, F. P. M., & Jensen, M. (2018). Simulation with Values.
Harel, R., Yumak, Z., & Dignum, F. P. M. (2018). Towards a generic framework for multi-party dialogue with virtual humans. Paper presented at Computer Animation and Social Agents 2018.
Dignum, F. P. M., & Bex, F. J. (2018). Creating Dialogues using Argumentation and Social Practices. In S. Diplaris, A. Satsiou, A. Følstad, M. Vafopoulos, & T. Vilarinho (Eds.), Internet Science: INSCI 2017 International Workshops, IFIN, DATA ECONOMY, DSI, and CONVERSATIONS, Thessaloniki, Greece, November 22, 2017, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 223-235). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 10750). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77547-0_17

2017

Scholarly publications

Nooitgedagt, A., Beun, R. J., & Dignum, F. P. M. (2017). e-Coaching for Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation: a Requirement Analysis. In PERSUASIVE 2017 (10171 ed., Vol. LNCS, pp. 31-42). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55134-0_3

Other output

Heidari, S., & Dignum, F. P. M. (2017). Value based Agents for Social Simulation of Fishery Management.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/360017/Value_based_Agents_for_Social_Simulation_of_Fishery_Management.pdf?sequence=1
Nooitgedagt, A., Beun, R. J., & Dignum, F. P. M. (2017). E-Coaching for Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation: a Requirement Analysis. Abstract from Sec. Int. Conf. on e-Coaching for Health and Wellbeing, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

2016

Scholarly publications

Dignum, F. P. M., Kaminka, G. A., Fox, M., Bouquet, P., Hüllermeier, E., Dignum, V., & van Harmelen, F. (Eds.) (2016). Proceedings of 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, The Hague, The Netherlands, IOS Press, 2016. In Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (Vol. 285)
Augello, A., Gentile, M., & Dignum, F. (2016). Social agents for learning in virtual environments. In Games and Learning Alliance - 5th International Conference, GALA 2016, Proceedings (Vol. 10056 LNCS, pp. 133-143). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 10056 LNCS). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50182-6_12
Augello, A., Gentile, M., Weideveld, L., & Dignum, F. (2016). A model of a social chatbot. In G. De Pietro, L. Gallo, R. J. Howlett, & L. C. Jain (Eds.), Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services 2016 (pp. 637-647). (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies; Vol. 55). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39345-2_57
Augello, A., Gentile, M., & Dignum, F. (2016). Social practices for social driven conversations in serious games. In Games and Learning Alliance - 4th International Conference, GALA 2015, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 9599, pp. 100-110). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9599). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40216-1_11
Muise, C., Dignum, F., Felli, P., Miller, T., Pearce, A. R., & Sonenberg, L. (2016). Towards team formation via automated planning. In Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Normes in Agent Systems XI - COIN 2015 International Workshops COIN@AAMAS, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 9628, pp. 282-299). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9628). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42691-4_16
Smith, W., Dignum, F., & Sonenberg, L. (2016). The construction of impossibility: A logic-based analysis of conjuring tricks. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(JUN), 1-7. [748]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00748
Visser, S., Thangarajah, J., Harland, J., & Dignum, F. P. M. (2016). Preference-based reasoning in BDI Agent Systems. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 30(2), 291-330. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-015-9288-2

2015

Scholarly publications

Hofstede, G. J., Dignum, F., Prada, R., Student, J., & Vanhée, L. C. B. C. (2015). Gender differences: The role of nature, nurture, social identity and self-organization. In Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XV - International Workshop, MABS 2014, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 9002, pp. 72-87). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9002). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14627-0_6
Dignum, V., & Dignum, F. P. M. (2015). Simulating Peer-review processes as social practices. In 21st International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, 30 nov.-4 dec. 2015, Gold Coast, Australia
Mercuur, R., Dignum, F. P. M., & Kashima, Y. (2015). Changing Habits using Contextualized Decision Making. In Advances in social simulation 2015 (pp. 267-272). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47253-9_23
Dignum, V., Dignum, F. P. M., & Jonker, C. (2015). Social analysis for the design of joint action: towards a methodology. In Second workshop towards a framework for joint action. 2 March, 2015, Portland
Luo, J., Dignum, F. P. M., & Meyer, J. J. C. (2015). A Formal Model of Opportunism Based on Situation Calculus, 4 May 2015, Istanbul. In Second International Workshop on Multiagent Foundations of Social Computing
Dignum, V., & Dignum, F. P. M. (2015). Contextualized Planning Using Social Practices. In N. Oren, P. Telang, J. Thangarajah, & A. Ghose (Eds.), Coordination, Organisations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems X: COIN 2014 International Workshops, COIN@AAMAS, Paris, France, May 6, 2014, COIN@PRICAI, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, December 4, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 36-52). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9372). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25420-3_3
Dignum, V., & Dignum, F. (2015). Value-Sensitive Design of Self-Organisation. In 2015 IEEE 9th International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 21-25, 2015 (pp. 156-161) https://doi.org/10.1109/SASO.2015.25
Dignum, F., Dignum, V., Prada, R., & Jonker, C. M. (2015). A conceptual architecture for social deliberation in multi-agent organizations. Multiagent and Grid Systems, 11(3), 147-166. https://doi.org/10.3233/MGS-150234
Luo, J., Dignum, F., & Meyer, J-J. C. (2015). Towards A Formal Model of Opportunism Based on Situation Calculus. In Multiagent System Technologies - 13th German Conference, MATES 2015, Cottbus, Germany, September 28-30, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 275-279) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27343-3_16
Luo, J., Meyer, J. J. C., & Dignum, F. P. M. (2015). On Formalizing Opportunism Based on Situation Calculus. In Advances in Social Computing and Multiagent Systems (pp. 147-166). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 541). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24804-2_10

2012

Scholarly publications

Dignum, F. P. M., & Dignum, M. V. (2012). You should be happy! In F. Paglieri, L. Tummolini, R. Falcone, & M. Miceli (Eds.), The Goals of Cognition: Essays in honour of Cristiano Castelfranchi (Tributes; Vol. 20). College Publications.
Dechesne, F., Di Tosto, G., Dignum, M. V., & Dignum, F. P. M. (2012). No smoking here. Values, norms and culture in multi-agent systems. Artificial Intelligence and Law.
Dignum, M. V., & Dignum, F. P. M. (2012). A logic of agent organizations. Logic Journal of the IGPL, 20(1), 283-316.
Di Tosto, G., & Dignum, F. P. M. (2012). Simulating Social Behaviour Implementing Agents Endowed with Values and Drives. In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS)

2011

Scholarly publications

Guttmann, C., Dignum, F. P. M., & Georgeff, M. (2011). Collaborative Agents – Research and Development. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6066.

2010

Scholarly publications

van Oijen, J., van Doesburg, W., & Dignum, F. P. M. (2010). Goal-based Communication using BDI Agents as Virtual Humans in Training: An Ontology Driven Dialogue System. In In Proceedings of Second International Workshop on Agents for Games and Simulations, Toronto, May 2010
Demazeau, Y., Dignum, F. P. M., Corchado, J., & Bajo-Perez, J. (2010). Advances in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems. Springer.
Dignum, F. P. M., Bradshaw, J., Silverman, B., & van Doesburg, W. A. (2010). Agents for Games and Simulations: Trends in Techniques, Concepts and Design. (LNAI 6525 ed.) Springer.

2009

Scholarly publications

Penserini, L., Aldewereld, H. M., Dignum, F. P. M., & Dignum, M. V. (2009). A Formal Specification for Organisational Adaptation. In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE-09)
Grossi, D., & Dignum, F. P. M. (2009). Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models. In M. V. Dignum (Ed.), IGI Publications (pp. 190-219)
Dignum, F. P. M., Dignum, M. V., Padget, J., & Vazquez Salceda, J. (2009). Organizing Web Services to develop Dynamic, Flexible, Distributed Systems. In Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (pp. 155-164). ACM.
Sindlar, M. P., Dastani, M. M., Dignum, F. P. M., & Meyer, J-JC. (2009). Explaining and Predicting the Behavior of BDI-Based Agents in Games. In M. Baldoni, J. Bentahar, B. Riemsdijk, & L. J. (Eds.), International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies (DALT) (pp. 174-191)

2008

Scholarly publications

Dignum, F. P. M., Steunebrink, B. R., Vergunst, N. L., Mol, C. P., & Meyer, J-JC. (2008). Theory and Practice of Social Reasoning, Experiences with the iCat. In B. Löwe (Ed.), AISB2008-LSIR http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/proc/proceedings/09%20Logic%20and%20Simulation/07.pdf
van der Weide, T., Dignum, F. P. M., Meyer, J-JC., Prakken, H., & Vreeswijk, G. A. W. (2008). Personality-based practical reasoning. In I. Rahwan, & P. Moraitis (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems ({ARGMAS}-08) (pp. 76-93)

2007

Scholarly publications

Dignum, M. V., & Dignum, F. P. M. (2007). Logic for Agent Organization. In B. Dunin-Keplicz, & R. Verbrugge (Eds.), Proceedigns of FAMAS@Durham'007 (pp. 83-100)
Aldewereld, H. M., Dignum, F. P. M., & Meyer, J-JC. (2007). From Norms to Interaction Patterns: Deriving Protocols for Agent Institutions. In M. M. Dastani, A. El Fallah Seghrouchni, A. Ricci, & M. Winikoff (Eds.), Pre-Proc. AAMAS07 Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems (ProMAS2007) (pp. 22-37).
Aldewereld, H. M., Dignum, F. P. M., & Meyer, J-JC. (2007). Designing Protocols for Agent Institutions. In E. Durfee, M. Yokoo, M. Huhns, & O. Shehory (Eds.), Proceedings of AAMAS'07 (pp. 138-140)

2006

Scholarly publications

Dignum, M. V., & Dignum, F. P. M. (2006). A Landscape of Agents for the Real World. UU WINFI Informatica en Informatiekunde.
Koch, F., Meyer, J-JC., Dignum, F. P. M., & Rahwan, I. (2006). Programming Deliberative Agents for Mobile Services: The 3APL-M Platform. In R. H. Bordini, M. Dr. Dastani, J. Dix, & A. El Fallah-Seghrouchni (Eds.), Programming Multi-Agent Systems: Third International Workshop (ProMAS 2005) (pp. 222-235). Springer.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/19710/dignum_05_programming.pdf?sequence=1

2005

Scholarly publications

Dignum, M. V., & Dignum, F. P. M. (2005). Task and Social Coordination in Agent Organizations. (UU-CS ed.) UU WINFI Informatica en Informatiekunde.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/10582/dignum_05_Task_and_Social_Coordination_in_Agent_Organizations.pdf?sequence=2

2004

Scholarly publications

Dignum, M. V., Vázquez-Salceda, J., & Dignum, F. P. M. (2004). A Model of Almost Everything: Norms Structure and Ontologies in Agent Organizations. In N. Jennings, C. Sierra, L. Sonenberg, & M. Tambe (Eds.), Proceedings AAMAS'04 ACM.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/11499/dignum_04_model_of_almost_everything.pdf?sequence=2
Vázquez-Salceda, J., & Dignum, F. P. M. (2004). Norms in Multiagent Systems: some Implementation Guidelines. In Second European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems -EUMAS'04-, Barcelona, December 2004
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/19702/dignum_04_norms.pdf?sequence=1

2003

Scholarly publications

Dastani, M. M., Dignum, F. P. M., & Meyer, J-JC. (2003). Autonomy and Agent Deliberation. In Michael Rovatsos, & Matthias Nickles (Eds.), Proceedings of The First International Workshop on Computational Autonomy - Potential, Risks, Solutions (Autonomous 2003) http://www.cs.uu.nl/~mehdi/publication/autonomy.pdf

2002

Scholarly publications

Dignum, M. V., Meyer, J-JC., Weigand, H., & Dignum, F. P. M. (2002). An Organisational-oriented Model for Agent Systems. In G. Lindemann, D. Moldt, M. Paolucci, & B. Yu (Eds.), Proceedings International Workshop on Regulated Agent-Based Social Systems: Theory and Applications (RASTA'02) (pp. 31-50). University of Hamburg.

2001

Scholarly publications

Groen, M., Dignum, F., & Baets, W. R. J. (2001). Treating dialogues with customers as sources of knowledge. In P. Kuehnlein, A. Newlands, & H. Rieser (Eds.), Proceedings of ESSLI 2001 (pp. 28-34). University of Helsinki. http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli/courses/readers/K53/K53.pdf

2000

Scholarly publications

Dignum, F. P. M. (2000). Information Management at a bank using agents: theory and practice. Journal of applied Artificial Intelligence, 14(7), 677-696.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/19833/dignum_00_information.ps?sequence=1

1998

Scholarly publications

Meyer, J-JC., Wieringa, R., & Dignum, F. P. M. (1998). The role of deontic logic in the specification of information systems. In J. Chomicki, & G. Saake (Eds.), Logics for Databases and Information Systems (pp. 71-115). Kluwer.