Abstract Over the past five years, the subject of Intelligent Network (IN) focused on architecture and introduction of new services. In parallel, TMN was introduced as a generic management-oriented architecture to be used for all kinds of management services. The integration of IN and TMN is a candidate to solve the problem of management of the IN. Unfortunately, this concept of integration is not sufficient to bring a flexible and adaptable management system. This paper describes a model based on Distributed Artificial Intelligence concepts able to manage the Intelligent Network. This model can be integrated in the different layers of the Intelligent Network architecture. We investigate four possibilities: at the physical plane, at the distributed functional plane, at the global functional plane and at the service plane. We compare the advantages and drawbacks of implementing the management process at those levels.
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