Tracy Mullen

Biographical Information

Before joining IST, Mullen worked at Lockheed Research and Development from 1987 to 1992 on automatic software synthesis, and at Telcordia Research and Development (formerly Bellcore) from 1999 to 2001 on applications of Internet markets to telecom, such as bandwidth markets.

Research and Teaching

Mullen's research interests include Internet auctions/markets, intelligent agents, multiagent systems, and electronic commerce. She has assisted in teaching courses on data structures and algorithms, discrete math, and software engineering at Rutgers University and the University of Michigan. Mullen teaches comparative computer languages at IST.

Publications:

Chen, Y., Mullen, T., and Chu, C. (2006) “An In-Depth Analysis of Information Markets with Aggregate Uncertainty,” Electronic Commerce Research, 6, 201-220.

Chen, Y., Chu, C. H. and Mullen, T. (2006) “Predicting Uncertain Outcomes Using Information Markets,” New Mathematics and Natural Computation (NM&NC), 2(3),
281-297.

Mullen, T., Avasarala, V., and Hall D. L., (2006) “Customer-Driven Sensor Management,” IEEE Intelligent Systems, 21(2), 41-49.

Jansen, B. J, Mullen, T., Spink A., and Pedersen, J. (2006) "Automated Gathering of  Web Information: An In-depth Examination of Agents interacting with Search Engines,”
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 6(4), 442 – 464.