Mining Association Rules between Sets of Items in Large Databases

Summary: Efficient algorithm to mine all significant association rules among itemsets in transaction databases. Introduces buffer management and novel estimation/pruning techniques; evaluation on a large retailer dataset shows scalability. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2703
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 0.0006567919
Overall Rank: 13 | 99.92%
DOI: 10.1145/170035.170072

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Authors

1. Rakesh Agrawal (IBM)
2. Tomasz Imielinski (IBM; Rutgers University)
3. Arun Swami (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{agrawal_sigmod93,
        title = {{Mining Association Rules between Sets of Items in Large Databases}},
        author = {Agrawal, Rakesh and Imielinski, Tomasz and Swami, Arun},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '93},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/170035.170072},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/170035.170072},
        year = {1993}
}

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12,328	Controlling False Positives in Association Rule Mining	2012	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,349	Mining Flipping Correlations from Large Datasets with Taxonomies	2012	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,653	Security in Outsourcing of Association Rule Mining	2007	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,656	Optimization of Frequent Itemset Mining on Multiple-Core Processor	2007	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,755	Using Association Rules for Fraud Detection in Web Advertising Networks	2005	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,766	Cost-Based Labeling of Groups of Mass Spectra	2004	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,784	Computing Frequent Itemsets Inside Oracle 10G	2004	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,812	How to Quickly Find a Witness	2003	PODS	5.093636e-05
12,878	Computational Properties of Metaquerying Problems	2000	PODS	5.093636e-05
12,882	Mining Frequent Itemsets Using Support Constraints	2000	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,885	Decision Tables: Scalable Classification Exploring RDBMS Capabilities	2000	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,983	Applying Data Mining Techniques to a Health Insurance Information System	1996	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,994	Enhancing Database Correctness: A Statistical Approach	1995	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
13,019	Tutorial Database Mining	1994	PODS	5.093636e-05
14,311	Quest: A Project on Database Mining	1994	SIGMOD	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
203	Dependency Inference	1987	VLDB	0.00025381538
440	An Interval Classifier for Database Mining Applications	1992	VLDB	0.00018409145

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