DIVERSITY OF THE MASHUP ECOSYSTEM

Michael Weiss, Solange Sari

2011

Abstract

Mashups allow users to develop applications from a variety of open APIs. The creation of mashups is supported by a complex ecosystem of interconnected data providers, mashup platforms, and users. A sign of a healthy ecosystem is that the number and diversity of APIs and mashups in the ecosystem increases continuously. In this paper, we describe a model of the evolution of the mashup ecosystem that allows us to estimate the diversification of the mashup ecosystem over time. In this model we show the evolutionary relationships between mashups as branches in a phylogenetic tree. We discuss how the diversification rate of the mashup ecosystem can be estimated by fitting this tree to a birth-death process model. The results of our research show that the diversity of the mashup ecosystem is increasing with time, however, not monotonically.

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Weiss M. and Sari S. (2011). DIVERSITY OF THE MASHUP ECOSYSTEM . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8425-51-5, pages 106-111. DOI: 10.5220/0003349701060111


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@conference{webist11,
author={Michael Weiss and Solange Sari},
title={DIVERSITY OF THE MASHUP ECOSYSTEM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2011},
pages={106-111},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003349701060111},
isbn={978-989-8425-51-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - DIVERSITY OF THE MASHUP ECOSYSTEM
SN - 978-989-8425-51-5
AU - Weiss M.
AU - Sari S.
PY - 2011
SP - 106
EP - 111
DO - 10.5220/0003349701060111