SWSDM: SOCIAL WEB SERVICE DISCOVERY MODEL

The number of services is growing at an explosive rate, creating great challenges in efficiently extracting the target services for users. Moreover, during recent years, social networks have emerged with the progress of the Web 2.0 and the popularity of social networks websites like Twitter and Facebook has increased rapidly. Adding social dimension in the Service-Oriented Architecture have facilitated web services discovery. Thus, web services can be treated as an active entities by being part of social networks. This paper proposes a social web services discovery model relying on the integration of social web services, and more social users in the discovery process. We aim to involve both users and web services in the discovery process, instead of focusing only on the web services. The results of using our framework show that the discovery process becomes easier if we take advantage of the relations among web services in their own social networks and linking both services and users in the same network.