We report on recent progress in the study of evolution processes involving
degenerate parabolic equations what may exhibit free boundaries. The equations
we have selected follow to recent trends in diffusion theory: considering
anomalous diffusion with long-range effects, which leads to fractional
operators or other operators involving kernels with large tails; and the
combination of diffusion and aggregation effects, leading to delicate long-term
equilibria whose description is still incipient