“…They arise naturally in a variety of situations in differential geometry, Lie theory, representation theory and homotopy algebras [27,54,52,53,20]. They are closely related to the emerging fields of derived differential geometry [5,11,12,23,39,40,48] and higher Lie algebroids [4,7,8,9,19,21,22,43,54,52,46] (see also [45,Letters 7 and 8]).…”