Teaching Activities
  • IST 240: Introduction to Computer Languages
  • IST 402: Artificial Intelligence and E-commerce
  • IST 512: Information Processing Architecture and Technology

Tracy Mullen

Assistant Professor of IST


Publications

Research Interests:
Market-based resource allocation:
  • for sensor management for multi-sensor data fusion, including humans as soft sensors
  • in emergency management team dynamic resource re-allocation across tasks
Multiple market systems + agent-based simulations:
  • participation in CAT market design competition as PSUCAT against other market specialists (2007: 2nd place, 2008: semi-finals, 2009: 4th place)
  • investigation of the impact of the misalighment of trading agent strategies in a multiple-market context
Other:
  • Trust management in federated systems
  • Prediction markets for decision making
  • Sponsored search auctions
  • RFID: in the retail value chain, complex event processing
Contact Information:

The Pennsylvania State University
313E IST Building
University Park, PA 16801-3857

Email: tmullen at ist.psu.edu
Voice: (814) 865-6425
Fax: (814) 865-6426