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Near Field Communication (NFC) is an emerging technology that facilitates data exchange between two devices wirelessly within close proximity. As integrated into more and more mobile phones, the NFC technology enables the users to interact with the intelligent environments in a natural and intuitive manner and thus changes the way people perform many routine daily activities like mobile payment, business card exchange, etc. Although NFC has bridged the physical and virtual worlds, context-aware technology is needed to sense and use NFC context actively in order to provide users with more intelligent and personalized services. In this paper, we propose an ontology-based framework for developing NFC-based context-aware applications, which can perceive user context and offer appropriate context-aware services to the user by combining the NFC technology with context-aware technology. With the proposed framework, application providers are enabled to develop NFC-based context-aware applications in a simple way. Meanwhile, the framework provides security service for protecting data integrity of the NFC context. This paper presents the framework's design, implementation and a real use case scenario that shows the validation of the approach.