“…RST has also been applied in agricultural science as a tool for data reduction. It was applied specifically as an element in multi-stage models for multivariate and complex problem solving, like best partner selection in supply chains (Guo and Lu, 2013), agricultural topic tracking (Zhang et al, 2011), evaluation of soil fertility (Chen and Ma, 2011), and agricultural Big Data management (Shi et al, 2012;Liu et al, 2009). Finally, three relevant applications of RST regard detecting cause-effect links in forecast modeling for rural area depletion and agricultural water demand (Li et al, 2010), and as a knowledge acquisition step in expert system formulations for agricultural problem solving (Li et al, 2013).…”