“…The links are modeled as bidirectional, as information, financial, and material flows in cooperative SCNs typically occur in both directions. Depending on its position or on its role within the cooperative SCN, each company is modeled as an agent with preestablished degree of autonomy to make decisions and characterized by a set of behaviors and attributes-see, for example, [112]. Behaviors are referred to as the way the agents act and react towards their partners, the extent to which they comply with the cooperation rules, the way they react to changes in their business environment, or their willingness to close any emergent interoperability gap.…”