SemLinkWS: Collaboration Social Network of Web Services to Aid Service Discovery
Amal Hafsi, Youssef Gamha, Cheyma Ben Njima, Lotfi Ben romdhane · Procedia Computer Science · 2021
Service-oriented computing (SOC) has come into view as a new computing paradigm that makes systems development and business process management more flexible and agile. It has recourse to services functioning as a fundamental compound in order to assist the construction of rapid and easy composition of distributed applications in heterogeneous environments. The rapid development of web service technologies has dramatically increased the number of available web services including those available on social networks. Thus, many studies have been carried out in the discovery mechanisms. The majority of proposed approaches in the literature for web services discovery based on the description of web services themselves and neglect their interaction with each other. Through the overlapping between social computing (illustrated by social networks) and service oriented computing (illustrated by web services), social web services are produced that are different from regular web services. In fact, they are a member of a social network and have an idea about other services in the same network. The first purpose of this paper is to justify the need of the use of an extension of WSDL-S to facilitate web service discovery, and the second purpose is to build a social network of web services to take advantage of the interactions that occur between services. However, the effort of developing social web services can partly undermine the utility of their implementation.