Generating Weighted Fuzzy Rules from Training Data for Dealing with the Iris Data Classification Problem

Yung-Chou Che^a, Li-Hui Wang^b, and Shyi-Ming Chen^c*

^a Department of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan, R.O.C.
^b Department of Finance, Chihlee Institute of Technology, Banciao City, Taipei County 220, Taiwan, R.O.C.
^c Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan, R.O.C.

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