“…Thanks to these characteristics, the agent paradigm became recently popular with distributed, large-scale, and dynamic applications. It offers a new perspective of autonomous activity, interactivity, reactivity and proactivity in an attempt to extend beyond speeding up the communications, calculations, and routine computation in business interactions (Wang, Cheung, Liu, & Luo, 2006). It can play many roles in the e-business area, notably the role of mediation in the commercial transactions (Sheng-Uei, Tai, & Fangming, 2005), the supply chain management (Minghua, Rogers, David, & Jennings, 2005) or e-supply chain integration (Minhong et al, 2008).…”