Towards a theory of context spaces

We propose initial work on a conceptual framework for context-aware systems, towards a general context model to aid thinking, describing, manipulating and utilizing context. Much work on context-aware computing have utilized context in specialized applications, with application-specific software (and perhaps hardware) and specialized context representation and manipulation. Context-aware systems are becoming increasingly important, and emerging research has begun to look at context-aware systems more generally, independently of specific applications, including context middleware and toolkits and ontologies for describing context.