隨著電腦系統日漸分散的設計趨勢，網格運算 (Grid Computing) 被認為會帶起下一波網路互連的浪潮，但要達到有如今日網際網路 (Internet) 般垂手可得的願景，還有賴相關的研究來標準化網格運算的協定。在相關的文獻探討中，本研究首先發現，軟體代理人技術不斷被提及可以帶給網格運算在管理設計上的創新思維，所以援用此概念，本研究形成由軟體代理人的特性來結合網格經濟 (Grid Economy) 的想法，期望以之賦與網格資源管理額外的優勢特色。
網格經濟是以資源供需的市場交易來決策資源配置的方法，但若是讓網點直接經由網路溝通來從事經濟行為，並不是非常有效率的設計，也較難管理交易時的秩序問題，因此本研究使用軟體代理人的漫遊以及集中市場的設立來克服這些潛在問題，以之提出一個資源管理的概念模型，說明其中的功能角色、元件架構以及架設時的組態設計，並藉由不同的情境來說明代理人行為如何連結資源管理，之後，本研究評估其中所展現出來的模型特色，將軟體代理人結合網格運算的優勢想法具體化。
最後，利用雛形系統的實作，本研究以實驗設計證明軟體代理人可以如模型所述的進行漫遊、在集中市場交易、使用網格環境內的服務、並依不同資源政策產生對應的交易結果來維持網點在決策上的自主性。

Grid computing is an emerging technology in the field of distributed computing. However, new technology always brings new challenges, such as the issue of resource management in Grid computing. In related research, Grid economy is an approach to manage allocations of resources in Grid. However, it’s inefficient for nodes to negotiate through network communication directly. Therefore, this research tries to combine software agent with Grid computing and bring up a better way to implement Grid economy. Through the roaming of software agent and configuration of Market Server, briefly, we can solve the potential problems in communication for resources trading.
By such ideas, we propose a conceptual model to manage resources in Grid on the basis of Grid economy and software agent by showing the roles, component architecture, and designs of configuration in this model. Moreover, we describe some scenarios about how this model could be applied to perform resource management. After that, an experiment was carried out to verify the feasibility of this model.

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