Towards a Framework for Weaving Social Networks Principles into Web Services Discovery
Résumé
This paper presents a framework for weaving the principles (or
metaphor) of social networks into Web services with emphasis on
supporting their discovery. Despite the regular updates of the
existing discovery techniques, the discovery of Web services
continues to exacerbate users due to the large number of available
Web services on the Internet. Different needs trigger the
discovery of Web services such as developing new, value-added
composite services and sustaining the high availability of other
peers. These needs reveal three types of relationships between Web
services, which are substitution, competition, and collaboration.
The proposed framework includes tools that capture these
relationships into social networks so that Web services discovery
can be made smooth. Some implementation and simulation details
are, also, discussed in this paper.