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Offering an integrated approach that includes important management and decision-making practices, this book shows how to create successful solutions that closely fit user and customer needs, by blending software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies.

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Leyton´s Process Grammar has been applied by scientists and engineers in many disciplines including medical diagnosis, geology, computer-aided design, meteorology, biological anatomy, neuroscience, chemical engineering, etc. This book demonstrates the following:
The Process Grammar invents several entirely new concepts in biological morphology and manufacturing design, and shows that these concepts are fundamentally important.
The Process Grammar has process-inference rules that give, to morphological transitions, powerful new causal explanations .
Remarkably, the book gives a profound unification of biological morphology and vehicle design .
The book invents over 30 new CAD operations that realize fundamentally important functions of a product.
A crucial fact is that the Process Grammar is an example of the laws in Leyton´s Generative Theory of Shape which give the ability to recover the design intents for which the shape features of a CAD model were created. The book demonstrates that the Process Grammar recovers important design intents in biological morphology and manufacturing design. In large-scale manufacturing systems, the recovery of design intents is important for solving the interoperability problem and product lifecycle management.
This book is one of a series of books in Springer that elaborates Leyton´s Generative Theory of Shape.

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1. Fundamental Theorem of Morphology.- 2. Generative Theory of Shape.- 3. Process Grammar.- 4. Pair-Creation.- 5. Process-Theory of Parts (1).- 6. Process-Theory of Parts (2).- 7. The Inadequacy of Catastrophe Theory for Morphology.- 8. Interactive Singularity Theory.- 9 The Structure of Interaction.-
10. Operators B and C in the Interactive Unfoldings of EA 3 and EA -3 .- 11 Operator pi in the Interactive Unfoldings of EA 3 and EA -3 .- 12 Operators CC and [ C (4) B ] in the Interactive Unfoldings of EA 3 and EA -3 .- 13 Five-Fold Part-Formation Operators in the Symmetry-Restricted Interactive Unfoldings of EA 5 and EA -5 .

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Michael Leyton is a professor at DIMACS Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at Rutgers University, Busch Campus.

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