Conceptual Modeling of the Organisational Aspects for Distributed Applications: The Semantic Lifting Approach

Designing, deploying and managing distributed applications is a complex multi-layered and multi-dimensional task which may focus on different aspects. Organizational aspect depicts an important phase and a chance to reduce complexity in this phase may give virtual organization an edge over competitors in dynamic markets. In this paper we propose an application of the Semantic Lifting, a meta modeling based approach to semantically enrich the conceptual models of the organizational layer in order to support the merge of different meta models applied in the complex setting of distributed application scenarios.