Towards Enabling Internet-Scale Context-as-a-Service: A Position Paper

Deploying context management systems at a global scale comes with a number of challenges and requirements. We argue that the hypermedia model and the agent-oriented paradigm help achieve the vision of Context-as-a-Service. We categorize challenges according to context processing concerns and use a scenario to exemplify how the proposed architectural principles help overcome the challenges.

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