Abstract
A major task in developing a fuzzy classification system is to generate a set of fuzzy rules from training instances to deal with a specific classification problem. In recent years, many methods have been developed to generate fuzzy rules from training instances. We present a new method to generate fuzzy rules from training instances to deal with the Iris data classification problem. The proposed method can discard some useless input attributes to improve the average classification accuracy rate. It can obtain a higher average classification accuracy rate and it generates fewer fuzzy rules and fewer input fuzzy sets in the generated fuzzy rules than the existing methods.