Career
She currently serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (JEDC) and the Journal of Energy Markets, and is a past associate editor for Applied Mathematics and Computation (1991-2008), the Journal of Public Economic Theory (1997-2006), and the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE-TEC) (1996-2002). She has guest-edited special issues on ACE for the JEDC, Computational Economics, and the IEEE-TEC. From 2002-2004 she was a consultant for the Los Alamos National Laboratory. From 1996-2004 she served as contributing co-editor in charge of the Complexity-at-Large section of the journal Complexity.
Current research focuses on Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE), the computational study of economic processes modeled as dynamic systems of interacting agents. One particular interest is the development of empirically-based ACE test beds for the study of restructured electricity markets, including the AMES Wholesale Power Market Test Bed released as open-source software through the IEEE. Another particular interest is the consideration of optimality and efficiency issues for open-ended dynamic economies (e.g., endogenous worker-employer matching, financial intermediation, and human capital investment). Agent-based computational economics, electric power markets, market coordination and learning, macroeconomics, economic theory.