Date of Award
2014
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.Sc.
Department
Computer Science
Keywords
Communication and the arts, Applied sciences, Apis, Centralities, Correlation, Mashups, Power law, Web service
Supervisor
Lu, Jianguo
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
A Web Service is a software component that is accessible on the Web. Web Services can collaborate to form composite services, which are called Mashups. Services and Mashups interconnect with each other, forming a complex network. This technological network evolves in a large scale without central control. As a new type of software network, there is an urgent need to study its topological properties. This thesis studies the Web Service Network that consists of 4255 primitive web services and mashups collected from ProgrammableWeb.com. We study various centralities of the network, including degree, betweenness, closeness and page rank. We find that it is a scale-free network, whose degree distributions follow a power law. We also identify the top web services according to these centrality measures, and demonstrate correlations between them.
Recommended Citation
Gade, Avani, "Web Service Network Analysis" (2014). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 5139.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/5139