Analyzing the Robustness of Web Service Networks

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a successful approach to conquer some of the complexities of distributed systems. There are many isolated and composite services being used based-on this approach. The composition of different service types creates a complex network used in various service compositions. However, the analysis of these networks, such as robustness analysis, have not received appropriate attention by the research community yet. In this paper, the web service networks are analyzed considering the robustness of these networks against random and targeted attacks. The results indicate that the robustness of these networks is low against both random and targeted attacks.