viewpoints

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viewpoints - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  ViewPoints
  
     <programming> A framework for distributed and concurrent
     software engineering which provides an alternative approach to
     traditional centralised software development environments.
  
     Decentralised process models are used to drive consistency
     checking and conflict resolution.  The process models use
     pattern matching on local development histories to determine
     the particular state of the development process, and employ
     rules to trigger situation-dependent assistance to the user.
     Communication between such process models facilitates the
     decentralised management of explicitly defined consistency
     constraints.
  
     [Ulf Leonhardt]
  
     (1995-03-27)