A Guide to the Literature on Semirings and their Applications in Mathematics and Information Sciences

This volume presents a short guide to the extensive literature concerning semir­ ings along with a complete bibliography. The literature has been created over many years, in variety of languages, by authors representing different schools of mathematics and working in various related fields. In many instances the terminology used is not universal, which further compounds the difficulty of locating pertinent sources even in this age of the Internet and electronic dis­ semination of research result