...Internet

Lawrence, S. and Giles C.L. ``Searching the World Wide Web'', Science vol. 280, April 3, 1998. Thanks to Z.Chen for providing the paper

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...Harvest

Brown, C.M. et.al. ``The Harvest Information Discovery and Access System'', Proceedings of the Second International World Wide Web Conference, 1994.

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...engines

Selberg, E. and Etzioni, O. ``The MetaCrawler Architecture for Resource Aggregation on the Web'', IEEE Expert 1997

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...Protocol

Wessels, D. and Claffy, K. ``ICP and the Squid Web Cache'',
<http://ircache.nlanr.net/Cache/reading.html>

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...work)

Brian T. Bartell of Encyclopedia Britannica seems to have done works in the area, he has a Ph.D. thesis Optimizing Ranking Functions: A Connectionist Approach to Adaptive Information Retrieval UC San Diego, 1994.

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...database

Han, J. et.al. `` Resource and Knowledge Discovery in Global Information System: A Scalable Multiple Layered Database Approach'', Proceedings of a Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries (ADL'95), McLean, VA, May 1995

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...Javalin

Christiansen, B. et.al. ``Javelin: Internet-Based Parallel Computing Using Java'', 1997 ACM Workshop on Java for Science and Engineering Computation, June 1997

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...ParaWeb

Brecht, T. et.al. ``ParaWeb: Towards World-Wide Supercomputing'', Proceedings of the Seventh ACM SIGOPS Europe Workshop on System Support for Worldwide Applications, September 1996

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...ATLAS

Baldeschwierler, J.E. et.al. ``ATLAS: An infrastructure for Global Computing'', Proceedings of the Seventh ACM SIGOPS European Workshop on System Support for Worldwide Applications, September 1996

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...Legion

Grimshaw, A.S. et.al. ``The Legion Vision of a Worldwide Virtual Computer'', Communications of the ACM, vol. 40, no. 1, January 1997

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...Globus

Foster, I. and Kesselman, C., ``Globus: A Metacomputing Infrastructure Toolkit'', International Journal of Supercomputer Applications to appear

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...I-Way

Foster, I. et.al. ``Software Infrastructure for the I-WAY High-Performance Distributed Computing Experiment. <http://www.mcs.anl.gov/globus>

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