General References on Simulation
Zeigler, B. P. 1984 Theory of Modelling and Simulation. Krieger Publishing Co., Inc.
Hartmann, A. K. 2009 A Practical Guide to Computer Simulation. World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc.
Zeigler, B. P. 1984 Theory of Modelling and Simulation. Krieger Publishing Co., Inc.
Hartmann, A. K. 2009 A Practical Guide to Computer Simulation. World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc.
Tague, J. M. and Nelson, M. J. 1981. Simulation of user judgments in bibliographic retrieval systems. In Proceedings of the 4th Annual international ACM SIGIR Conference on information Storage and Retrieval: theoretical Issues in information Retrieval (Oakland, California, May 31 - June 02, 1981). SIGIR '81. ACM, New York, NY, 66-71.
Tague, J., Nelson, M., and Wu, H. 1981. Problems in the simulation of bibliographic retrieval systems. In Proceedings of the 3rd Annual ACM Conference on Research and Development in information Retrieval (Cambridge, England, June 23 - 27, 1980). Annual ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Butterworth and Co., Kent, UK, 236-255.
Tague, J. and Nelson, M. 1982. Simulation of bibliographic retrieval databases using hyperterms. In Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Conference on Research and Development in information Retrieval (West Berlin, Germany, May 18 - 20, 1982). Annual ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Springer-Verlag New York, New York, NY, 194-208.
Harman, D. 1992. Relevance feedback revisited. In Proceedings of the 15th Annual international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in information Retrieval (Copenhagen, Denmark, June 21 - 24, 1992). N. Belkin, P. Ingwersen, and A. M. Pejtersen, Eds. SIGIR '92. ACM, New York, NY, 1-10.
Ruthven, I. 2003. Re-examining the potential effectiveness of interactive query expansion. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in informaion Retrieval (Toronto, Canada, July 28 - August 01, 2003). SIGIR '03. ACM, New York, NY, 213-220.
Jordan, C., Watters, C., and Gao, Q. 2006. Using controlled query generation to evaluate blind relevance feedback algorithms. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Chapel Hill, NC, USA, June 11 - 15, 2006). JCDL '06. ACM, New York, NY, 286-295.
Keskustalo, H., Järvelin, K., Pirkola, A. (2006). The Effects of Relevance Feedback Quality and Quantity in Interactive Relevance Feedback: A Simulation Based on User Modelling. In: 28th European Conference on Information Retrieval ECIR06, London, April 2006. Heidelberg: Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 3936, pp. 191-204.
Keskustalo, H., Järvelin, K., Pirkola, A. (2008). Evaluating the Effectiveness of Relevance Feedback Based on a User Simulation Model: Effects of a User Scenario on Cumulated Gain Value. Information Retrieval 11(5): 209-228.
Järvelin, K. 2009. Interactive relevance feedback with graded relevance and sentence extraction: simulated user experiments. In Proceeding of the 18th ACM Conference on information and Knowledge Management (Hong Kong, China, November 02 - 06, 2009). CIKM '09. ACM, New York, NY, 2053-2056.
Shen, X., Tan, B., and Zhai, C. 2005. Context-sensitive information retrieval using implicit feedback. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in information Retrieval (Salvador, Brazil, August 15 - 19, 2005). SIGIR '05. ACM, New York, NY, 43-50.
White, R. W., Ruthven, I., Jose, J. M., and Rijsbergen, C. J. 2005. Evaluating implicit feedback models using searcher simulations. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. 23, 3 (Jul. 2005), 325-361.
White, R. W. 2006. Using searcher simulations to redesign a polyrepresentative implicit feedback interface. Inf. Process. Manage. 42, 5 (Sep. 2006), 1185-1202.
White, R. W. and Kelly, D. 2006. A study on the effects of personalization and task information on implicit feedback performance. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM international Conference on information and Knowledge Management (Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 06 - 11, 2006). CIKM '06. ACM, New York, NY, 297-306.
Keskustalo, H., Järvelin, K., Pirkola, A., Sharma, T., Lykke Nielsen, M. (2009). Test Collection-Based IR Evaluation Needs Extension Toward Sessions - A Case of Extremely Short Queries. In: Lee, G., al., Proceedings of AIRS 2009, the 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, Sapporo, Japan, October 2009. Heidelberg: Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 5839, pp. 63-74.
Leuski, A. 2000. Relevance and reinforcement in interactive browsing. In Proceedings of the Ninth international Conference on information and Knowledge Management (McLean, Virginia, United States, November 06 - 11, 2000). CIKM '00. ACM, New York, NY, 119-126.
Smucker, M. D. and Allan, J. 2006. Find-similar: similarity browsing as a search tool. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in information Retrieval (Seattle, Washington, USA, August 06 - 11, 2006). SIGIR '06. ACM, New York, NY, 461-468.
Warner, D., Durbin, S. D., Richter, J. N., and Gedeon, Z. 2006. Adaptive web sites: user studies and simulation. In Proceedings of the 15th international Conference on World Wide Web (Edinburgh, Scotland, May 23 - 26, 2006). WWW '06. ACM, New York, NY, 975-976.
Smucker, M. D. and Allan, J. 2007. Using similarity links as shortcuts to relevant web pages. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in information Retrieval (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 23 - 27, 2007). SIGIR '07. ACM, New York, NY, 863-864.
Lin, J. and Smucker, M. D. 2008. How do users find things with PubMed?: towards automatic utility evaluation with user simulations. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in information Retrieval (Singapore, Singapore, July 20 - 24, 2008). SIGIR '08. ACM, New York, NY, 19-26.
Urruty, T., Hopfgartner, F., Villa, R., Gildea, N., and Jose, J. M. 2008. A cluster-based simulation of facet-based search. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Pittsburgh PA, PA, USA, June 16 - 20, 2008). JCDL '08. ACM, New York, NY, 472-472.
Leelanupab, T., Feng, Y., Stathopoulos, V., and Jose, J. M. 2009. A Simulated User Study of Image Browsing Using High-Level Classification. In Proceedings of the 4th international Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies: Semantic Multimedia (Graz, Austria, December 02 - 04, 2009). T. Chua, Y. Kompatsiaris, B. Mérialdo, W. Haas, G. Thallinger, and W. Bailer, Eds. Lecture Notes In Computer Science, vol. 5887. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 3-15.
Pirolli, P. 1997. Computational models of information scent-following in a very large browsable text collection. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Atlanta, Georgia, United States, March 22 - 27, 1997). S. Pemberton, Ed. CHI '97. ACM, New York, NY, 3-10.
Pirolli, P. and Card, S. 1995. Information foraging in information access environments. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Denver, Colorado, United States, May 07 - 11, 1995). I. R. Katz, R. Mack, L. Marks, M. B. Rosson, and J. Nielsen, Eds. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., New York, NY, 51-58.
Pirolli, P. 1998. Exploring browser design trade-offs using a dynamical model of optimal information foraging. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Los Angeles, California, United States, April 18 - 23, 1998). C. Karat, A. Lund, J. Coutaz, and J. Karat, Eds. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., New York, NY, 33-40.
Chi, E. H., Pirolli, P., Chen, K., and Pitkow, J. 2001. Using information scent to model user information needs and actions and the Web. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Seattle, Washington, United States). CHI '01. ACM, New York, NY, 490-497.
John, B. E., Prevas, K., Salvucci, D. D., and Koedinger, K. 2004. Predictive human performance modeling made easy. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Vienna, Austria, April 24 - 29, 2004). CHI '04. ACM, New York, NY, 455-462.
Wilson, M. L., schraefel, M. C., and White, R. W. 2009. Evaluating advanced search interfaces using established information-seeking models. Journal American Society Information Science Technology, 60, 7 (Jul. 2009), 1407-1422.
Turpin, A., Scholer, F., Järvelin, K., Wu, M.F., Culpepper, S. (2009). Including Summaries in System Evaluations. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR '09), Boston, 19 ? 23 July, 2009. New York, NY: ACM Press, pp. 508-515.
Arampatzis, A. and Kamps, J. 2008. A study of query length. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in information Retrieval (Singapore, Singapore, July 20 - 24, 2008). SIGIR '08. ACM, New York, NY, 811-812.
Azzopardi, L. and de Rijke, M. 2006. Automatic construction of known-item finding test beds. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in information Retrieval (Seattle, Washington, USA, August 06 - 11, 2006). SIGIR '06. ACM, New York, NY, 603-604.
Azzopardi, L. 2009. Query side evaluation: an empirical analysis of effectiveness and effort. In Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in information Retrieval (Boston, MA, USA, July 19 - 23, 2009). SIGIR '09. ACM, New York, NY, 556-563.
Lin, J. 2007. User simulations for evaluating answers to question series. Information Processing Management 43, 3 (May. 2007), 717-729.
Hall, W. A. 1969. A general simulation model of an on-line telephone directory assistance information retrieval system. In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Applications of Simulation (Los Angeles, California, United States, December 08 - 10, 1969). Winter Simulation Conference. Winter Simulation Conference, 434-441.
Jenkins, J. M. and Maher, R. G. 1968. Uses of simulation in the design of large scale information systems. In Proceedings of the Second Conference on Applications of Simulations (New York, New York, United States, December 02 - 04, 1968). Winter Simulation Conference. Winter Simulation Conference, 85-86.
Diaz, F. and Arguello, J. 2009. Adaptation of offline vertical selection predictions in the presence of user feedback. In Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in information Retrieval (Boston, MA, USA, July 19 - 23, 2009). SIGIR '09. ACM, New York, NY, 323-330.
Bodner, R. C. 2005 Automated Evaluation of Hypertext Search Strategies. Doctoral Thesis. UMI Order Number: AAINR02839., University of Toronto. Work based on This Thesis
Urban, J. 2007 An Adaptive Approach for Image Organisation and Retrieval Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~jana/research/publications/JanaDissertation.pdf
Shen, X. 2007 User-Centered Adaptive Information Retrieval. Doctoral Thesis. UMI Order Number: AAI3290374., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Smucker, M. D. 2008 Evaluation of Find-Similar with Simulation and Network Analysis. Doctoral Thesis. UMI Order Number: AAI3336938., University of Massachusetts Amherst. http://www.mansci.uwaterloo.ca/~msmucker/publications/smucker-dissertation.pdf