The purpose of this paper is to give an updated survey on various algebraic and analytic properties of semigroups related to fixed point properties of semigroup actions on a non-empty closed convex subset of a Banach space or, more generally, a locally convex topological vector space.
Dedicated to Professor Karl H. Hofmann with admiration and respect1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 43A07 Secondary 43A60, 22D05 46B20.