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Exploring The Use Of Social Media To Infer Relationships Between Demographics, Psychographics And Vaccine Hesitancy, Abhimanyu Kapur Jun 2021

Exploring The Use Of Social Media To Infer Relationships Between Demographics, Psychographics And Vaccine Hesitancy, Abhimanyu Kapur

Computer Science Senior Theses

The growing popularity of social media as a platform to obtain information and share one's opinions on various topics makes it a rich source of information for research. In this study, we aimed to develop a framework to infer relationships between demographic and psychographic characteristics of a user and their opinion on a specific narrative - in this case, their stance on taking the COVID-19 vaccine. Twitter was the chosen platform due to the large USA user base and easily available data. Demographic traits included Race, Age, Gender, and Human-vs-Organization Status. Psychographic traits included the Big Five personality traits (Conscientiousness, …


Producing Easy-To-Verify Proofs Of Linearizability, Ugur Yavuz Jun 2021

Producing Easy-To-Verify Proofs Of Linearizability, Ugur Yavuz

Computer Science Senior Theses

Proofs of linearizability tend to be complex and lengthy, rendering their verification challenging for readers. We provide a novel technique to produce easy-to-verify proofs of linearizability, with the help of mechanical proof assistants. Specifically, we reduce the task of proving the correctness of a linearizable object implementation, to a proof of an inductive invariant of a slightly modified version of the implementation. As the latter is a task many mechanical proof systems (such as TLAPS) are well-suited to undertake, this reduction allows the verification of the proof by the reader, to only consist of a trivial syntactic check of whether …