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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)