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As stated in the introduction, the paper is an introduction to the authors' work on cosimplicial spaces \(X^\bullet\), operad-encoded algebraic structures on their corealizations \(Tot\) \(X^\bullet\), and the Deligne conjecture. It is very recommendable to anybody who wants to learn about (topological) operads and their use in present days' research. The authors recall the definitions of an operad, its non-symmetric version, of \(A_\infty\), \(E_n\), and \(E_\infty\) structures. The main goal of the paper is to give useful sufficient conditions on a cosimplicial space \(X^\bullet\) for \(Tot\) \(X^\bullet\) to have such a structure and to give applications. Each definition and construction is carefully motivated and the authors make an effort to make their ideas understood. Proofs are only outlined, the reader is referred to their other papers for explicit proofs. The topological results are extended to the category of chain complexes. Among the applications are \(E_2\)-structures on certain spaces of knots and on the topological Hochschild cohomology spectrum, concrete chain models of the little \(n\)-cubes operad and the framed little discs operad, and a discussion of Deligne's Hochschild cohomology conjecture. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1050.57001].