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Abstract
The food sector is confronted with a growing number of public and private requirements, which
call for provision of information about the quality and sustainability of food, such as, e.g., its
origin, safety and production conditions. This forces enterprises to innovate towards demand driven
and knowledge-based production of food. As a consequence, intra- and inter-enterprise
production and information processes have to be integrated and suitable information systems
need to be developed to provide information for related decision processes. The present paper
introduces a generalized modelling framework for model-based decision support systems (DSS)
involving production and information processes across whole supply networks. The different
phases of a decision process are supported by the integration of functional, behavioural and
informational network models using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and discrete-event
simulation.