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AIRS is going one step ahead among the other classifiers with the aid of improve-
ments done in the algorithm. The proposed change in this study has produced very
satisfactory results to use the classifier in other medical datasets. Other application
areas are also open for Fuzzy-AIRS to experiment with. One of the further studies can
be using the fuzzy mechanisms in other Artificial Immune Systems similar to AIRS.
Acknowledgments. This study has been supported by Scientific Research Project of
Selcuk University (Project No: 05401069).
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