viewpoint

n 1: a mental position from which things are viewed; "we should

consider this problem from the viewpoint of the

Russians"; "teaching history gave him a special point of

view toward current events" [syn: {point of view}, {stand},

{standpoint}]

2: a place from which something can be viewed; "from that

vantage point he could survey the whole valley" [syn: {vantage

point}]

ViewPoints

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)