Similarity-based Service Recommendation for Service-Mashup Developers

HyunSeung Kim, InYoung Ko

http://doi.org/10.5626/JOK.2017.44.9.908

As web service technologies are widely used, there have been many efforts to develop approaches for recommending appropriate web services to users in complex and dynamic service environments. In addition, for the effective development of service mashups, service recommender systems that are specialized for service composition have been developed. However, existing service recommender systems for service mashups are not effective at recommending services in a personalized manner that reflect developers’ preferences. To deal with this issue, we propose an approach that recommends services based on the similarities between mashup developers who have developed similar service mashups. The proposed approach is then evaluated by using the mashup data retrieved from ProgrammableWeb. The evaluation results clearly show that the proposed approach is an effective way of improving service recommendations compared to the traditional user-based collaborative filtering algorithm.