Controlling human and animal infectious diseases continues to be a major global challenge. In a recent review article in Philosophical Transactions B, Joanne Cable et al. assess how ecological studies of parasites in a changing environment can be used to inform control programmes for infections of humans and domestic animals. http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/cont…/…/1719/20160088

The management of water distribution networks presents a great challenge to water utilities. To tackle this challenge, this Proceedings A paper proposes a systematic optimisation methodology together with a novel mixed-integer differential evolution algorithm for automatically and efficiently controlling the water network in real-time. A UK pilot case study suggests that more than 20% cost can be saved with the adaptive pricing. This research is of great interest to practitioners in both the water domain and artificial intelligence.

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