...V. C. Chavez-Demoulin

Valerie.Chavez@epfl.ch

...A. S. A. Roehrl

Armin.Roehrl@epfl.ch, Please send page proofs to this address!

...R. A. Roehrl

Roehrl@iiasa.ac.at

...A. Weinberg

Anna.Weinberg@metri.unige.ch

...approach

This paper is the result of a collaborative effort of a computer scientist, a statistician, a specialist in political history and economics, and an analyst of infrastructure strategies and development (see Appendix on Authors' Biographies).

...[10]

According to the latest information on archive.org that has increased to 75 days.

...software

This is a good approach due to long time-to-market and a relatively small supercomputer market compared to the server- and workstation markets.

...Verlaine

Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud had a poetic, as well as a sexual relationship which ended in July 1873 when, following a violent quarrel Verlaine shot twice at Rimbaud.

...survived

a personal experience by one of the authors.

...cities

as studied, e.g., by Fernand Braudel [38] for the case of the city of Venice and medieval European countries in different centuries.

...increase

MCI estimates a 30% Internet traffic increase per month [20].

...used

In future, armies of Web robots and intelligent agents will be active everywhere. This will range from helping us to study French literature, to carefully monitoring the operation of our fridges. Other possible applications range from Web robots acting as cybercops on copyright violations to increasingly sophisticated second and third generation search-engines.