Richard Dedekind used the notion of semiring in his study of ideals without
giving the semiring a formal definition. However, H.S. Vandiver,[5] gave a
fexample of a semiring which is not a ring is the set of natural numbers in N
under usual addition and multiplication of numbers.
Even though, the study of derivations in rings was initiated long back, it got
its significance only after Posner [4] who in 1955 established two very striking
results. The notion of derivation has also been generalized in various directions.
In [3], Jonathan Golan mentioned about the derivation on a semiring. However,
nothing more has been said on it. This motived Chandramouleeswaran and
Thiruveni to introduce and discuss the notion of derivation on a semiring
and its properties[2]. In 1990, Bresar and Vukman [1] firstly introduced the
notion of a left- derivation in a ring and proved that a left- derivation of a
semiprime ring R must map R into its center. Motivated by this, in this
paper, we introduce the notion of right-derivation on a semiring S and prove
some simple properties.ormal definition and introduced the notion of semiring in 1934. A natural