Expertise and Trust-Aware Social Web Service Recommendation

With the increasing number of Web services, the personalized recommendation of Web services has become more and more important. Fortunately, the social network popularity nowadays brings a good alternative for social recommendation to avoid the data sparsity problem that is not treated very well in the collaborative filtering approach. Since the social network provides a big data about the users, the trust concept has become necessary to filter this abundance and to foster the successful interactions between the users. In this paper, we firstly propose a trusted friend detection mechanism in a social network. The dynamic of the users’ interactions over time and the similarity of their interests have been considered. Secondly, we propose a Web service social recommendation mechanism which considers the expertise of the trusted friends according to their past invocation histories and the active user’s query. The experiments of each mechanism produced satisfactory results

SOAF- Design and Implementation of a Service enriched Social Network

Abstract. In this paper, we propose the integration of services into social networks (SOAF- Service of a Friend) to leverage the creation of the Internet of Services vision. We show how to integrate services and humans into a common network structure and discuss design and implementation issues. In particular, we discuss the required extensions to existing social network vocabulary with regard to services. We illustrate a scenario where this network structures can be applied in the context of service discovery and highlight the benefit of a service-enriched social network structure.