Extracting Backbones in Weighted Modular Complex Networks
Network science provides effective tools to model and analyze complex systems. However, the increasing size of real-world networks becomes a major hurdle in order to understand their structure and...
Targeted attacks on the world air transportation network: impact on its regional structure
Perturbations of the air transport network have a tremendous impact on many sectors of activity. Therefore, a better understanding of its robustness to targeted attacks is essential. The...
Centrality in Modular Networks
Identifying influential nodes in a network is a fundamental issue due to its wide applications, such as accelerating information diffusion or halting virus spreading. Many measures based on the...
Community detection algorithm evaluation with ground-truth data
Community structure is of paramount importance for the understanding of complex networks. Consequently, there is a tremendous effort in order to develop efficient community detection algorithms....
Overlapping Community Structure in Co-authorship Networks: a Case Study
Community structure is one of the key properties of real-world complex networks. It plays a crucial role in their behaviors and topology. While an important work has been done on the issue of...
A multi-criteria service selection algorithm for business process requirements
The selection of the most appropriate Web services to realize business tasks still remain an open issue. We propose a multi-criteria algorithm for efficient service selection. Web services and...
Benefits of Semantics on Web Service Composition from a Complex Network Perspective
The number of publicly available Web services (WS) is continuously growing, and in parallel, we are witnessing a rapid development in semantic-related web technologies. The intersection of the...
On Topological Structure of Web Services Networks for Composition
In order to deal efficiently with the exponential growth of the Web services landscape in composition life cycle activities, it is necessary to have a clear view of its main features. As for many...
Topological Properties of Web Services Similarity Networks
The number of publicly available Web services (WS) is continuously growing. To perform efficient WS discovery, it is desirable to organize the WS space. Works in this direction propose to group WS...
A Comparative Study of Web Services Composition Networks
Web services growth makes the composition process a hard task to solve. This numerous interacting elements can be adequately represented by a network. Discovery and composition can benefit from...
A Community Based Algorithm for Large Scale Web Service Composition
Web service composition is the process of synthesizing a new composite service using a set of available Web services in order to satisfy a client request that cannot be treated by any available...
On Flexible Web Services Composition Networks
The semantic Web service community develops efforts to bring semantics to Web service descriptions and allow automatic discovery and composition. However, there is no widespread adoption of such...
Community Structure in Interaction Web Service Networks
Many real-world complex systems such as social, biological, information as well as technological systems results of a decentralized and unplanned evolution which leads to a common structuration....
MATAWS: A Multimodal Approach for Automatic WS Semantic Annotation
Many recent works aim at developing methods and tools for the processing of semantic Web services. In order to be properly tested, these tools must be applied to an appropriate benchmark, taking...
Similartity Network For Semantic Web Services Substitution
Web services substitution is one of the most challenging tasks for automating the composition process of multiple Web services. It aims to improve performances and to deal efficiently with Web...
Analyzing Web Services Networks: a WS-NEXT Application
Web services represent a system with a huge number of units and many various and complex interactions. Complex networks as a tool for modelling and analyzing natural environments seem to be well...