Semigroups And Applications - Proceedings of the Conference on Semigroups and Applications : St. Andrews, UK, 2-9 July 1997

This volume contains contributions from leading experts in the rapidly developing field of semigroup theory. The subject, now some 60 years old, began by imitating group theory and ring theory, but quickly developed an impetus of its own, and the semigroup turned out to be the most useful algebraic object in theoretical computer science.