Structure Reinforcing and Attribute Weakening Network based API Recommendation Approach for Mashup Creation

With the explosive growth of Web APIs on the Internet, it is a challenge to recommend desirable Web APIs from multiple ecosystems to develop a Mashup. Most existing API service recommendation methods focus on functional semantic similarity, but underutilize the rich network relations which inherently reflect either positive or negative relevance between services. Moreover, in the recommendation process, they usually pay too much attention to the interactions between Mashups and APIs, but ignore the cooperation between APIs. In this paper, we propose a novel method named SRAWN (Structure Reinforcing and Attribute Weakening Network) based API recommendation approach for Mashup creation. Specifically, we first design a feature extractor layer to capture structure relationship and attribute information from an API relation network graph by introducing a GAT2VEC framework, and obtain representation vectors corresponding to each API. Then, a matching evolving layer is proposed to capture the matching evolving process between APIs. At this layer, APIs are chosen incrementally to composite a Mashup, and the embedding vectors of the Mashup's existing composition features are updated adaptively based on diverse candidate APIs, by introducing a Deep Interest Network. Comprehensive experiments on a real-world dataset show that SRAWN outperforms the other state-of-the-art solutions.