Abstract: A system, method, and computer program relate a plurality of applications in a computing system. The system, method, and computer program generate a plurality of ontologies associated with the applications. The system, method, and computer program also generate a meta-ontology associated with the plurality of ontologies. Each ontology includes one or more ontology elements, which represent application components. The application components may include application services and/or parameters for an associated application service. The parameters may include input parameters and output parameters for the associated application service. The meta-ontology includes one or more meta-ontology elements, which represent one or more relationships between at least some of the ontology elements.

Abstract: A system and a method for integrating and adopting a service-oriented architecture that utilize such semantic searching. A exemplary system includes an application discovery and semantic analysis software tool. The application discovery and semantic analysis software tool includes a discovery engine that discovers application services, an application resource catalog that stores the discovered application services as software constructs in an application services ontology, and a semantic inference engine that semantically analyzes the software constructs in the application services ontology to determine relationships between the application services and enable more efficient searching of the discovered application services.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program for relating computing systems. A plurality of applications form a plurality of solution domains, where each solution domain represents at least a portion of one or more computing systems. The system, method, and computer program generate a plurality of ontologies associated with the applications. The system, method, and computer program also generate a plurality of meta-ontologies associated with the solution domains. The system, method, and computer program further generate a meta meta-ontology, which combines the meta-ontologies. Each ontology includes one or more ontology elements, which represent application components. The application components include, e.g., application services and/or parameters, such as input parameters and output parameters for the associated application. Each meta-ontology includes one or more meta-ontology elements, which represent one or more relationships between at least some of the ontology elements.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program relate a plurality of applications in a computing system. The system, method, and computer program generate a plurality of ontologies associated with the applications. The system, method, and computer program also generate a meta-ontology associated with the plurality of ontologies. Each ontology includes one or more ontology elements, which represent application components. The application components may include application services and/or parameters for an associated application service. The parameters may include input parameters and output parameters for the associated application service. The meta-ontology includes one or more meta-ontology elements, which represent one or more relationships between at least some of the ontology elements.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program describe a relation ontology. The system, method, and computer program generate an Web Ontology Language (OWL) document associated with a meta-ontology. The system, method, and computer program also insert one or more statements into the OWL document describing a meta-ontology element of the meta-ontology. The one or more statements define the meta-ontology element as a super class of two or more related ontology elements. The two or more related ontology elements are associated with at least one ontology.