The rapid growth in the number and diversity of Web APIs, coupled with the myriad of
functionally similar Web APIs, makes it difficult to find most suitable Web APIs for users to …

After introducing the core constituents of mashups, the components, in this chapter we study
what it means to integrate different components into composite applications, that is …

With the rapid development of Web2. 0 and its related technologies, Mashup services (ie,
Web applications created by combining two or more Web APIs) are becoming a hot research …

With the wide adoption of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), the number of web
accessible services and their compositions is increasing rapidly. Among huge number of …

The development of modern Web 2.0 applications is increasingly characterized by the
involvement of end users with typically limited programming skills. In particular, an emerging …

Web mashups are a new generation of applications based on the “composition” of ready-to-
use services. In different contexts, ranging from the consumer Web to Enterprise systems …

Due to the rapid growth in both the number and diversity of Web services on the Internet, it
becomes increasingly difficult for developer to find the desired and appropriate Web …

Mashups have relatively simple, component-based development paradigms, yet few end
users develop their own applications. To help turn end users into developers and …

An understanding of information flow has many applications, including for maximizing
marketing impact on social media, limiting malware propagation, and managing undesired …

Cloud application programming interface (API) is a software intermediary that enables
applications to communicate and transfer information to one another in the cloud. As the …