An Efficient Algorithm for Mining Association Rules in Large Databases

Summary: Efficient algorithm for mining association rules in large databases; fundamentally different from prior approaches. I/O overhead reduced and CPU overhead lowered (up to 4x CPU, ~10x I/O), enabling scalable performance on large datasets. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h698c6ad1f5eeeafe
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1995
Pagerank: 0.0001616577
Overall Rank: 573 | 96.16%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ashok Savasere (Georgia Institute of Technology)
2. Edward Omiecinski (Georgia Institute of Technology)
3. Shamkant Navathe (Georgia Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@article{savasere_vldb95,
        title = {{An Efficient Algorithm for Mining Association Rules in Large Databases}},
        author = {Savasere, Ashok and Omiecinski, Edward and Navathe, Shamkant},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '95},
        pages = {432--443},
        year = {1995}
}

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124	Approximate Frequency Counts over Data Streams	2002	VLDB	0.00030586757
164	Mining Frequent Patterns without Candidate Generation	2000	SIGMOD	0.000273994
475	Sampling Large Databases for Association Rules	1996	VLDB	0.00017665769
620	Mining Quantitative Association Rules in Large Relational Tables	1996	SIGMOD	0.00015495576
732	Beyond Market Baskets: Generalizing Association Rules to Correlations	1997	SIGMOD	0.00014387748
913	Efficiently Mining Long Patterns from Databases	1998	SIGMOD	0.00013109093
1,561	Exploratory Mining and Pruning Optimizations of Constrained Association Rules	1998	SIGMOD	0.00010235581
4,026	Cache-conscious Frequent Pattern Mining on a Modern Processor	2005	VLDB	6.8430008e-05
4,446	Online Association Rule Mining	1999	SIGMOD	6.5949467e-05
4,640	Association Rules over Interval Data	1997	SIGMOD	6.4892961e-05
4,740	Scalable Parallel Data Mining for Association Rules	1997	SIGMOD	6.4411738e-05
5,449	Pigeonring: A Principle for Faster Thresholded Similarity Search	2019	VLDB	6.123954e-05
5,621	rho-uncertainty: Inference-Proof Transaction Anonymization	2010	VLDB	6.0588309e-05
6,145	Data Mining with the SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator	2006	VLDB	5.8694977e-05
6,573	An Optimal Algorithm for l1-Heavy Hitters in Insertion Streams and Related Problems	2016	PODS	5.7431378e-05
6,829	Ratio Rules: A New Paradigm for Fast, Quantifiable Data Mining	1998	VLDB	5.6688632e-05
7,192	On the Discovery of Interesting Patterns in Association Rules	1998	VLDB	5.5880063e-05
7,355	A Framework for Measuring Changes in Data Characteristics	1999	PODS	5.5422207e-05
9,287	Ontological Pathfinding: Mining First-Order Knowledge from Large Knowledge Bases	2016	SIGMOD	5.2015703e-05
9,399	Feasible Itemset Distributions in Data Mining: Theory and Application	2003	PODS	5.1843659e-05
12,837	Robust and Distributed Top-N Frequent-Pattern Mining With SAP BW Accelerator	2009	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
12,952	Optimization of Frequent Itemset Mining on Multiple-Core Processor	2007	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
13,080	Computing Frequent Itemsets Inside Oracle 10G	2004	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
13,178	Mining Frequent Itemsets Using Support Constraints	2000	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

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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
13	Mining Association Rules between Sets of Items in Large Databases	1993	SIGMOD	0.00064391979
359	Knowledge Discovery in Databases: An Attribute-Oriented Approach	1992	VLDB	0.00020003932
1,640	Combinatorial Pattern Discovery for Scientific Data: Some Preliminary Results	1994	SIGMOD	0.0001000699
1,963	DBMS Research at a Crossroads: The Vienna Update	1993	VLDB	9.3040056e-05

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