“…These properties distinguish AFD from the traditional studies of TM systems, Downloaded by [New York University] at 07: 12 14 May 2015 as well as from matching pursuit. AFD has found applications in control theory ( [11,12]), as well as theoretical impacts to approximation theory and operator theory. In AFD, the maximal selection principle is performed as | f, B {a 1 ,...,a n } | = sup b∈D | f, B {a 1 ,...,a n−1 ,b} |.…”