The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

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.