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Context-aware smart car: from model to prototype Abstract: Smart cars are promising application domain for ubiquitous computing. Context-awareness is the key feature of a smart car for safer and easier driving. Despite many industrial innovations and academic progresses have been made, we find a lack of fully context-aware smart cars. This study presents a general architecture of smart cars from the viewpoint of context- awareness. A hierarchical context model is proposed for description of the complex driving environment. A smart car prototype including software platform and hardware infrastructures is built to provide the running environment for the context model and applications. Two performance metrics were evaluated: accuracy of the context situation recognition and efficiency of the smart car. The whole response time of context situation recognition is nearly 1.4 s for one person, which is acceptable for non-time critical applications in a smart car. Key words: Smart car, Intelligent vehicle, Context-aware, Ubiquitous computing.doi:10.1631 /jzus.A0820154 Document code: A CLC number: TP39 INTRODUCTION Cars are becoming important private places frequently used in daily life. However, they also bring many problems, such as traffic congestions and accidents. A smart car aims at assisting its driver with easier driving, less workload and less chance of getting injured (Moite, 1992). For this purpose, a smart car must be able to sense, analyze, predict and react to the road environment, which is the key feature of smart cars: context-awareness. Lots of technologies have been developed in the past decade, such as intelligent transportation systems(ITS) (Wang et al., 2006) and the advanced driver assistant system (ADAS) (Kü?ükay and Bergholz,2004). However, current smart cars are not really context-aware. Only a few types of the information of road environments, which is called contexts, are utilized. Besides, most of current smart cars lack complex reasoning. The