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Pay per use is an essential feature of cloud computing. Users can make use of some parts of a large scale service to satisfy their requirements, merely at the cost of a little payment. A good understanding of the users’ requirement is a prerequisite for choosing the service in need precisely. Context implies users’ potential requirements, which can be a complement to the requirements delivered explicitly. However, traditional context-aware computing research always demands some specific kinds of sensors to acquire contextual information, which renders a threshold too high for an application to become context-aware. This paper comes up with an approach which combines contextual information obtained directly and indirectly from the cloud services. Semantic relationship between different kinds of contexts lays foundation for the searching of the cloud services. And mashup technology is adopted to compose the heterogonous services. Abundant contextual information may lend strong support to a comprehensive understanding of users’ context and a bettered abstraction of contextual requirements.
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He, Y., Li, L., He, K., Chen, X. (2009). A Contextual Information Acquisition Approach Based on Semantics and Mashup Technology. In: Jaatun, M.G., Zhao, G., Rong, C. (eds) Cloud Computing. CloudCom 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5931. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10665-1_46
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