Niche Formation in the Mashup Ecosystem

A Topic Modeling Approach to Categorizing API Customer Value Propositions

“…Information about APIs such as endpoint descriptions, data formats, and protocols provided by API providers play a key role in the consumption of APIs by API consumers. In addition, such information allows the evolution of the API service system by (Wittern et al, 2014): (Huang et al, 2012), phylogenetic trees (Weiss et al, 2013), and graph theory (Pan et al, 2012;Wittern et al, 2014).…”

“…The evolution of the mashup service system can be attributed to niche formation around central hub APIs (Weiss et al, 2013). In studying the characteristics of developers in the API service system, evidence suggest that frequently used APIs in the API service system attract large amounts of users who have similar ideas and similar behavior.…”

“…The study of the API service systems is of high value (Lyu et al, 2014). Several studies have taken an empirical look at API service systems, in particular programmableweb.com, using network science techniques (Endres-Niggemeyer, 2013;Huang et al, 2012;Lyu et al, 2014;Yu & Woodard, 2008;Weiss & Gangadharan, 2010; Wiess & Sari, 2010; Weiss et al, 2013;Rosenblum, 2011). These studies use the links between Mashups and APIs as a focal point for their study.…”