data driven

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

data driven

   A data driven architecture/language performs computations in
   an order dictated by data dependencies.  Two kinds of data
   driven computation are {dataflow} and {demand driven}.

   From about 1970 research in parallel {data driven} computation
   increased.  Centres of excellence emerged at {MIT},
   {CERT-ONERA} in France, {NTT} and {ETL} in Japan and
   {Manchester University}.