Tönshoff, H.-K.Seilonen, IlkkaTeunis, GerritLeitão, Paulo2010-01-272010-01-272000Tönshoff, H.-K.; Seilonen, Ilkka; Teunis, Gerrit; Leitão, Paulo (2000). A mediator-based approach for decentralised production planning, scheduling and monitoring. In Proceedings of the CIRP International Seminar on Intelligent Computation in Manufacturing Engineering (ICME'00). Capri, Italy. p.113-118http://hdl.handle.net/10198/1531The improvement of business processes along the supply chain has become a focus in industry and research during the past decade. Based on advanced technologies for communication and data structuring this paper describes a software system called the Mediator that provides support for integrating decision-making of several separate actors in decentralized business organizations. The Mediator is designed to offer an adequate level of decision-making integration, taking into account the effort needed for the integration of heterogeneous computer systems by use of the Extended Mark-up Language (XML). The approach is demonstrated for industrial pilot cases in multi-site and supply-chain production.engDecentralized systemsProduction planningMediatorSystem integrationconference paper