Fernando Diaz' list of IR simulation papers.

ir-simulation.bib

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@ARTICLE{Cooper1973-ix,
  title     = "A simulation model of an information retrieval system",
  author    = "Cooper, Michael D",
  journal   = "Information Storage and Retrieval",
  publisher = "Elsevier",
  volume    =  9,
  number    =  1,
  pages     = "13--32",
  month     =  jan,
  year      =  1973,
  issn      = "0020-0271",
  doi       = "10.1016/0020-0271(73)90004-1"
}

@ARTICLE{Gordon1990-dy,
  title     = "Evaluating the effectiveness of information retrieval systems
               using simulated queries",
  author    = "Gordon, Michael D",
  journal   = "Journal of the American Society for Information Science.
               American Society for Information Science",
  publisher = "Wiley",
  volume    =  41,
  number    =  5,
  pages     = "313--323",
  month     =  jul,
  year      =  1990,
  language  = "en",
  issn      = "0002-8231, 1097-4571",
  doi       = "10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199007)41:5<313::aid-asi1>3.0.co;2-g"
}

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@PHDTHESIS{Griffiths1976-wl,
  title     = "The computer simulation of information retrieval systems",
  author    = "Griffiths, Jos{\'e}-Marie",
  publisher = "University of London (University …",
  year      =  1976,
  school    = "University of London (University College)"
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{Lin2008-jn,
  title     = "How do users find things with {PubMed}? towards automatic
               utility evaluation with user simulations",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 31st annual international {ACM} {SIGIR}
               conference on Research and development in information retrieval",
  author    = "Lin, Jimmy and Smucker, Mark D",
  publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
  pages     = "19--26",
  series    = "SIGIR '08",
  month     =  jul,
  year      =  2008,
  address   = "New York, NY, USA",
  location  = "Singapore, Singapore",
  isbn      = "9781605581644",
  doi       = "10.1145/1390334.1390340"
}

@ARTICLE{Mostafa2003-fb,
  title     = "Simulation Studies of Different Dimensions of Users' Interests
               and their Impact on User Modeling and Information Filtering",
  author    = "Mostafa, Javed and Mukhopadhyay, Snehasis and Palakal, Mathew",
  journal   = "Information retrieval",
  publisher = "Springer",
  volume    =  6,
  number    =  2,
  pages     = "199--223",
  month     =  apr,
  year      =  2003,
  issn      = "1386-4564, 1573-7659",
  doi       = "10.1023/A:1023932221048"
}

@ARTICLE{White2005-wc,
  title     = "Evaluating implicit feedback models using searcher simulations",
  author    = "White, Ryen W and Ruthven, Ian and Jose, Joemon M and Van
               Rijsbergen, C J",
  journal   = "ACM Transactions on Information and System Security",
  publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
  volume    =  23,
  number    =  3,
  pages     = "325--361",
  month     =  jul,
  year      =  2005,
  address   = "New York, NY, USA",
  issn      = "1094-9224, 1046-8188",
  doi       = "10.1145/1080343.1080347"
}

@PHDTHESIS{Smucker2008-av,
  title     = "Evaluation of find-similar with simulation and network analysis",
  author    = "Smucker, Mark D",
  editor    = "Allan, James",
  publisher = "ProQuest Dissertations Publishing",
  year      =  2008,
  address   = "Ann Arbor, United States",
  school    = "University of Massachusetts Amherst",
  language  = "en",
  isbn      = "9780549915249"
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{Carterette2011-ca,
  title     = "Simulating simple user behavior for system effectiveness
               evaluation",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 20th {ACM} international conference on
               Information and knowledge management",
  author    = "Carterette, Ben and Kanoulas, Evangelos and Yilmaz, Emine",
  publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
  pages     = "611--620",
  series    = "CIKM '11",
  month     =  oct,
  year      =  2011,
  address   = "New York, NY, USA",
  location  = "Glasgow, Scotland, UK",
  isbn      = "9781450307178",
  doi       = "10.1145/2063576.2063668"
}

@UNPUBLISHED{Fradkin2019-zk,
  title    = "A Simulation Approach to Designing Digital Matching Platforms",
  author   = "Fradkin, Andrey",
  journal  = "Boston University Questrom School of Business",
  month    =  jan,
  year     =  2019,
  doi      = "10.2139/ssrn.3320080"
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{Diaz2009-sb,
  title     = "Adaptation of offline vertical selection predictions in the
               presence of user feedback",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 32nd international {ACM} {SIGIR} conference
               on Research and development in information retrieval",
  author    = "Diaz, Fernando and Arguello, Jaime",
  publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
  pages     = "323--330",
  series    = "SIGIR '09",
  month     =  jul,
  year      =  2009,
  address   = "New York, NY, USA",
  location  = "Boston, MA, USA",
  isbn      = "9781605584836",
  doi       = "10.1145/1571941.1571998"
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{Acharya2007-ua,
  title       = "A simulation framework for evaluating designs for sponsored
                 search markets",
  booktitle   = "{WWW} 2007 workshop on sponsored search auctions",
  author      = "Acharya, Soam and Krishnamurthy, Prabhakar and Deshpande,
                 Ketan and Yan, Tak and Chang, Chi-Chao",
  publisher   = "Citeseer",
  institution = "Citeseer",
  year        =  2007
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{Carterette2011-rs,
  title     = "System effectiveness, user models, and user utility: a
               conceptual framework for investigation",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 34th international {ACM} {SIGIR} conference
               on Research and development in Information Retrieval",
  author    = "Carterette, Ben",
  publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
  pages     = "903--912",
  series    = "SIGIR '11",
  month     =  jul,
  year      =  2011,
  address   = "New York, NY, USA",
  location  = "Beijing, China",
  isbn      = "9781450307574",
  doi       = "10.1145/2009916.2010037"
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{Tague1980-if,
  title     = "Problems in the simulation of bibliographic retrieval systems",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd annual {ACM} conference on Research and
               development in information retrieval",
  author    = "Tague, Jean and Nelson, Michael and Wu, Harry",
  publisher = "Butterworth \& Co.",
  pages     = "236--255",
  series    = "SIGIR '80",
  month     =  jun,
  year      =  1980,
  address   = "GBR",
  location  = "Cambridge, England",
  isbn      = "9780408107754"
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{Tague1981-gs,
  title     = "Simulation of user judgments in bibliographic retrieval systems",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 4th annual international {ACM} {SIGIR}
               conference on Information storage and retrieval: theoretical
               issues in information retrieval",
  author    = "Tague, Jean M and Nelson, Michael J",
  publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
  pages     = "66--71",
  series    = "SIGIR '81",
  month     =  may,
  year      =  1981,
  address   = "New York, NY, USA",
  location  = "Oakland, California",
  isbn      = "9780897910521",
  doi       = "10.1145/511754.511764"
}

This is the papers from Fernando's twitter thread.