Social Network-Based Framework for Web Services Discovery

Abstract

As web services increasingly becoming popular, particularly in the context of Internet of Things, incorporating social networks have helped their discovery and binding. However considering both web services and users in the same social network and examining their influence on each other have not been investigated yet in previous work. In this paper, we propose a new social network-based framework for analyzing the role and influence of users and web services in the discovery process. We promote the idea of combining users and web services in the same global social network. First, we describe our threestep engineering method to build such a network that considers users and web services characteristics. Second, we analyze the different types of interactions that could take place between users and web services inside their global network. The results of our simulation show that this approach provides an immediate and wider exposure for web services and makes the discovery easier and efficient.

Expertise and Trust –Aware Social Web Service Recommendation

“…With the advent of social media, some SR approach [7,15,24], which are based on users' SNs, emerged to reduce the problems of FC approach such as the cold-start and data sparsity [22]. Moreover, with a prevalence of users' social networks, a great number of data were generated.…”

“…Moreover, with a prevalence of users' social networks, a great number of data were generated. Thus, the social trust [9] has been studied in different levels such as between (i) the web services (or applications) [7], (ii) the providers (e.g. Web sites, organizations, governments) [2,12], (iii) service consumers (e.g.…”

Swsdm: Social Web Service Discovery Model

“…In fact, available registries do not capture how each web service was interacting with peers. Recently, with the advent of social Web, many web service discovery model, which is based on web services social networks, have been proposed Maamar et al (2011); Fallatah et al (2014). Integrating social concepts in service computing to build social web services (SWSs) has enhanced the web service discovery.…”

“…An SWS is a service that lives in an interlinked network of services, where services can (i) collaborate to satisfy complex users needs, (ii) recommend the services to replace it, and (iii) compete with each other to be selected. A community exists that mixes social networks of web services and social networks of users, exploiting the potential of social networks to include users to be interactive entities, opens the door to new discovery schemes Fallatah et al (2014). In recent years, some approaches Fallatah et al (2014); Kalaı̈ et al (2018), which consider the users social relationships and profile, have been proposed.…”

“…A community exists that mixes social networks of web services and social networks of users, exploiting the potential of social networks to include users to be interactive entities, opens the door to new discovery schemes Fallatah et al (2014). In recent years, some approaches Fallatah et al (2014); Kalaı̈ et al (2018), which consider the users social relationships and profile, have been proposed. Thus, the integration of users and services into a common social network, like SOAF (Service-Of-A-Friend) Network , has been a new line of research.…”