Introducing a simplified implementation of the AHS organic middleware

Acquiring Self-X properties like self-organization and self-healing is a main goal of Organic Computing - a new and very promising research area. Inspired by nature, Organic Computing research wants to learn and adopt from techniques and properties of nature. The artificial hormone system (AHS), motivated by the hormone system of mammals as a role model, was designed to map tasks on processing elements using artificial hormones. In previous publications, the idea of an organic middleware and first theoretical results were presented. In this paper, we will present ways of improving the performance and minimizing the memory consumption of an AHS implementation.