FYI:

You might also want to dip into the simulation archives at LBL, which include all copies of the Building Energy Simulation User's News, found at:

http://simulationresearch.lbl.gov/dirun/un_back.html

This will take you back to 1980.

Also, you'll find lots of papers and thesis at the ESL from the IETC, H&H and ICEBO conferences going back to the early 1980s.

http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu/digital-library.html

Jeff S. Haberl, Ph.D.,P.E., FASHRAE