Towards Enabling Context-as-a-Service for Social Assistive Robotics

Integrating assistive robots into global-scale management systems comes with a number of challenges and requirements which are pervasive to all applications enabling context-awareness. 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. A security model is presented, enabling the correct management of information in a hierarchy of agents.