Soft computing for smarter operation management in water distribution systems

[EN] This document is intended to be a presentation of session ST36 of CMN2017, placing this session in the appropriate context to understand its motivation and guide its content. The circumstances that occurred in 2016 have led the session to become a posthumous tribute to Rafael Pérez García who died on October 7, 2016. This document also presents concisely the 17 contributions submitted to the session, by shortly describing how they fit into the session scope, seeking for soft computing techniques that ease smarter management of water distribution systems, including planning, operation and maintenance of those increasingly complex systems, especially when online actions are the target Izquierdo Sebastián, J.; Herrera Fernández, AM.; Montalvo Arango, I.; Ayala-Cabrera, D. (2017). Soft computing for smarter operation management in water distribution systems. International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE). 1683-1690. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/179790