Virginia Dignum

Virginia Dignum received a PhD in Computer Science from the Utrecht University (the Netherlands). Before joining academia in 2003, she worked in consultancy and system development for more than 12 years. Her current research focuses on agent based models of organizations, in particular in the dynamic aspects of organizations, and the applicability of agent organizations to knowledge management. She participates and leads several national and EU-projects, and has more than 50 published articles. She organized several international workshops, was treasurer of AAMAS 2005 and is vice-chair of the Belgian-Dutch AI Association.

Publications

Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models
Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models
Virginia Dignum. © 2009. 630 pages.
Organizational design plays a critical role in the development of larger and more complex multi-agent systems (MAS). As systems grow to include hundreds or thousands of agents...
Toward an Organization-Oriented Design Methodology for Agent Societies
Toward an Organization-Oriented Design Methodology for Agent Societies
Virginia Dignum, Hans Weigand. © 2008. 16 pages.
In this chapter, we present a framework for the design of agent societies that considers the influence of social organizational aspects on the functionality and objectives of the...
Toward an Organization-Oriented Design Methodology for Agent Societies
Toward an Organization-Oriented Design Methodology for Agent Societies
Virginia Dignum, Hans Weigand. © 2003. 22 pages.
In this chapter, we present a framework for the design of agent societies that considers the influence of social organizational aspects on the functionality and objectives of the...