the purpose of this book is to present an up to date account of fuzzy subsemigroups and fuzzy ideals of a semigroup. the book concentrates on theoretical aspects, but also includes applications in the areas of fuzzy coding theory, fuzzy finite state machines, and fuzzy languages. basic results on fuzzy subsets, semigroups, codes, finite state machines, and languages are reviewed and introduced, as well as certain fuzzy ideals of a semigroup and advanced characterizations and properties of fuzzy semigroups.