Fecha de publicación: 16/08/2018 Fuente: WIPO "apis" A Web application programming interfaces (API) recommendations technology for use in existing context (e.g., considering an already selected API) is disclosed. For example, recommendations for a “next” API, considering already “selected” APIs can be provided. Web API co-occurrence documents are derived for each Web API, based on modeling and previous usages with other web APIs. Web API co-occurrence topics and features are derived from the co-occurrence documents. Web APIs used together frequently can be considered as belonging to the same co-occurrence topic. Content about Web APIs can be associated with topics for later feature extraction. Features that can be extracted include: importance of topics, representative Web APIs in a topic (without being subject to bias due to frequent compositions in one topic), and descriptive words for a topic (if content about Web APIs was associated with topics). Patterns and recommendation are viewed, for a given Web API or a set of Web APIs, by calculating the expected co-occurrence with other Web APIs. Expected co-occurrences can be used to rank Web APIs for recommendation.