Introduction -- Introduction to Elementary Net Synthesis -- Other Forms of the Synthesis Problem -- Algorithms of Elementary Net Synthesis -- Variations of Elementary Net Synthesis -- A Unified Theory of Net Synthesis -- The Linear Algebraic Structure of Regions -- Synthesis of P/T-Nets from Finite Initialized Transition Systems -- Synthesis of Unbounded P/T-Nets -- P/T-Nets with the Step Firing Rule -- Extracting Concurrency from Transition Systems -- Process Discovery -- Supervisory Control -- Design of Speed Independent Circuits -- Bibliography.