1. A method for relating applications in a computing system, comprising: generating a plurality of ontologies associated with the applications, each ontology comprising one or more ontology elements representing one or more application components chosen from a list consisting of: application services and parameters for associated application services; and generating a meta-ontology associated with the plurality of ontologies, the meta-ontology comprising one or more meta-ontology elements for use in representing one or more relationships between at least some of the ontology elements.