Abstract The Intellectual Distributed Processing System (IDPS) does not have any centralized managing element. IDPS system elements find their roles autonomously, in order to complete given objectives. IDPS system elements are also able to solve conflicts among different objectives without any supervisory element, by exchanging information among elements. In this paper, fundamental mechanisms for managing system elements distributedly are described. These mechanisms are implemented on the object oriented distributed operating system, which has been developed on multi micro computers connected by local area network. It is expected that large scale adaptive systems can be developed and operated easier by these mechanisms.