Authors:
Shahab Mokarizadeh
1
;
Peep Küngas
2
and
Mihhail Matskin
1
Affiliations:
1
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
;
2
University of Tartu, Estonia
Keyword(s):
SemanticWeb Services, Information Diffusion, DeepWeb, Linked Services,Web Services Network Analysis.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Internet Technology
;
Ontology and the Semantic Web
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
;
Web Services and Web Engineering
Abstract:
Since Web services represent a fragment of the Deep Web, Web service interface descriptions reflect the content types available in the DeepWeb. Therefore semantic annotations of theseWeb service interfaces, after using them to link services to services networks, allow analysis of the structure of the DeepWeb. In this work, we investigate information diffusion, as one of highlighted Deep Web research directions, among networks of Web services. We present a model for analyzing information diffusion between both individual service providers and entire service industries. The proposed model is evaluated based on set of public Web services interface description harvested from public registries. The model indicates high potential of the proposed method in understanding the hidden structure of the Deep Web and interactions between individual service providers or service industries.