Received 1 April 2005 Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Accepted 15 May 2005 MAN@RCHISES: new added-services architecture in automatic management networking Tuan Loc Nguyen 1 , Laurent Ouakil 2 , Guy Pujolle* ,†,1 and Abbas Jamalipour 3 1 Laboratory Lip6, University Paris 6, 8 rue du Capitaine Scott, 75015 Paris, France 2 Ucopia Communications, Chatillon, France 3 University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia SUMMARY The environment of the telecommunications service operators is particularly complex today with the inte- gration of very diverse services coming from the Internet. This complexity arises from an integration between telecommunications and the Internet. The generalization of the Internet continues to grow unabated, especially with the rapid adoption of mobile and fixed wireless connecting a myriad of devices in homes and businesses. It allows us to have more and more services at low cost. In the future, anyone with any kind of device at any times will have options to access any service from anywhere. In fulfilling this requirement, more rapid and profitable methods of service creation and management must be exam- ined. In this context, MAN@RCHISES, a network-based application concept, is proposed in this paper. This concept results in the integration of the Internet service concept and the intelligence in networking concept of the telecommunications world. MAN@RCHISES is an architecture in which the applications and the services are not ported onto a pre-existing network, but where the network itself grows out of the applications and the services that end user demands. The major objective of this article is to propose a new architecture for the adaptive and self-organizing ambient aware applications. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 1. INTRODUCTION The development of the Internet is opening the doors wide for introducing a plethora of new services such as e-newspapers, e-shopping and e-advertising. People will have access to information at their fin- gertips and using any device (personal computer, PDA, smart phone, etc.). 1 This perspective will create better services at lower cost to consumers since these services will be generalized and will become common for everybody. At the initial stage of the Internet era, people believed that the development of the Internet would eliminate the intermediary, and that producers and customers would interact directly through the Internet. Information available on the Internet has rapidly multiplied. People do not know which information is important or can be trusted, or how to find it easily. Thus, in the model of net economy, the Internet intermediary reappears at a higher level than in the past and has new roles, like providing product infor- mation to buyers and marketing information to sellers, aggregating, managing physical deliveries and payments, providing trust-based relationships and ensuring the integrity of markets. As a result, the con- sumer and the producer not only interact directly but also through mediation services. This creates value- added services and could aggregate service information directly between producers, and thus generate INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NETWORK MANAGEMENT Int. J. Network Mgmt 2006; 16: 45–57 Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/nem.587 *Correspondence to: Guy Pujolle, Laboratory Lip6, University Pairs 6, 8 rue du Capitaine Scott, 75015 Paris, France. † E-mail: Guy-Pujolle@lip6.fr