“…In the past years, the AFS theory has been used with great success in various fields. This section discusses various applications based on AFS theory in the area of business intelligence (Bi et al, ; Ebonzo & Liu, ; Ebonzo et al, ; Y. Li et al, , , ; Tao et al, ; Y. Wang et al, , ; Xu et al, ), computer vision (Q. Li et al, ; Z. Li, Duan, et al, ; Z. Li, Zhang, Duan, Wang, et al, ; Ren et al, ; Sarkhel et al, ), financial data analysis (Guo et al, ; Tao et al, ; W. Wang & Liu, ), and clinical data analysis (Silva et al, ). The AFS theory provides us a useful tool to study the knowledge representation and inference that is significant in knowledge engineering, decision‐making, and intelligent systems.…”