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.