The proceedings of the July 1993 Congress comprise four review and 20 refereed research papers that cover recent advances on semihypergroups, hypergroups, hyperrings, hypermodules, and related structures with applications in geometry, informatics, automata theory, and other fields. A novel feature is the new interest in hyperstructures among specialists in fuzzy sets and in computer science. Several of the papers are in French. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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