Author： Cherifi Chantal Santucci Jean-François
Publisher： Inderscience Publishers
ISSN： 1477-8394
Source： International Journal of Web Based Communities, Vol.9, Iss.3, 2013-06, pp. : 392-410
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Abstract
Many real-world complex systems such as social, biological, information as well as technological systems results of a decentralised and unplanned evolution which leads to a common structuration. Irrespective of their origin, these so-called complex networks typically exhibit small-world and scale-free properties. Another common feature is their organisation into communities. In this paper, we introduce models of interaction networks based on the composition process of syntactic and semantic web services. An extensive experimental study conducted on a benchmark of real web services shows that these networks possess the typical properties of complex networks (small-world, scale-free). Unlike most social networks, they are not transitive. Using a representative sample of community detection algorithms, a community structuration is revealed. The comparative evaluation of the discovered community structures shows that they are very similar in terms of content. Furthermore, the analysis performed on the community structures and on the communities themselves, leads us to conclude that their topological properties are consistent.
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