Implementing and Evaluating the AHS Organic Middleware - A First Approach

Organic Computing is a new and promising research area. Inspired by nature, organic computing research wants to learn and adopt from techniques and properties of nature. The goal is to acquire the so called Self-X properties like self-organization and self-healing. Taking the hormone system of mammals as a role model, the artificial hormone system(AHS) was designed to map tasks on processing elements using artificial hormones. In previous publications we presented the idea of an organic middleware and first theoretical results. As we want to run this middleware in an embedded scenario we will now present an implementation of the AHS written in pure ANSI C and show first real-world scenarios and results of test series.