Community Detection-Based Approach for Web Services Discovery Using User’s Importance

As Web-based technologies expand and become more widely used, an increasing number of service providers are offering a wide range of Web services. As a result, service discovery became a task that became increasingly more difficult. Meanwhile, social networks have appeared and are rapidly growing in both popularity and use. To understand the structure of such a network, community detection is a popular method. In this paper, we propose a Web service discovery approach incorporating Web service communities in order to reduce the search space. Our strategy entails developing a Web services community and proposing a method for Web services discovery in the context of social networks based on user importance.