Ontology Driven Architecture for Acoustic Management

The Reflective Middleware for Acoustic Management (ReM-AM) aims to improve the interaction between users and agents in intelligent environments, using acoustic services in a context modeled with multiagent systems. The middleware allows observing, analyzing, modifying and interacting in every state of an intelligent environment from the acoustics. Its architecture is an extension of the AmICL middleware for Cloud Learning Environments, in order to consider the unpredictable situations due to the sounds and vibrations; this work presents an ontology driven architecture (ODA) for acoustic management. This architecture defines the different domains of knowledge requires for the management of the sounds in smart environment, which are modeled using ontologies. There are ontologies in the domain of the acoustic sciences, contextual ontologies, and ontologies that describe the middleware, among others, which are naturally integrated in the ODA for the acoustic management. Finally, the paper presents several case studies in the context of Smart Classrooms and Smart Concert Halls.