The Initial Screening Order Problem

This is the repository for The Initial Screening Order Problem (WSDM'25). It contains the script (under src/) and figures (under output/) discussed in Section 4. Only the programming language R is needed. The user can change the parameters to simulate multiple hiring problems under the ISO as formulated in Sections 2 and 3.

References

The Initial Screening Order. Jose M. Alvarez, Antonio Mastropietro, and Salvatore Ruggieri. ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2025.

If you make use of this code, the ExaminationSearch and CascadeSearch algorithms, or data generated by the simulation framework in your work, please cite the following paper:

  @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/wsdm/AlvarezMR25,
  author       = {Jos{\'{e}} M. {\'{A}}lvarez and
                  Antonio Mastropietro and
                  Salvatore Ruggieri},
  title        = {The Initial Screening Order Problem},
  booktitle    = {{WSDM}},
  pages        = {165--174},
  publisher    = {{ACM}},
  year         = {2025}
}