A toric arrangement is a finite set of hypersurfaces in a complex torus, every hypersurface being the kernel of a character. In the present paper we build a CW-complex S homotopy equivalent to the arrangement complement Rx, with a combinatorial description similar to that of the well-known...

Analyse und Ausblick auf die Zukunft der Autoindustrie. Die Zeitenwende wird in 3 "Wellen" skizziert: Antriebsintelligenz (abgasfreies Fahren), künstliche Intelligenz (autonom fahrende Autos) und Schwarmintelligenz / Sharing Economy (gemeinschaftliche Kfz-Nutzung). (2-3)

Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot brain, but recognizably human. Train an em to...