found: Work cat.: Zhang, C. Association rule mining, 2002.
found: Roiger, R. Data mining, 2003:p. 49 (association rule mining techniques are used to discover interesting associations between attributes contained in a database. Unlike traditional production rules, association rules can have one or several output attributes. Also, an output attribute for one rule can be an input attribute for another rule)
found: Encyclopedia of computer science, 2000:pp. 497-498 (Data mining methods ... One common method is called association rules ... These are based on algorithms that find frequently occurring combinations of items in the database. A common application is market basket analysis)
found: Dictionary of computer science, engineering, and technology, 2001(association rules -- a class of rules used in data mining. An association rule states an association or relation between sets of data)
found: OCLC, Sept. 22, 2005(titles: Association rule mining over multiple databases; Fast sequential and parallel algorithms for association rule mining; Data structures for selective association mining; A study of two problems in data mining : projective clustering and multiple tables association rules mining)
found: Google search, Sept. 22, 2005(association rule mining - 78,500 hits; association rules mining - 11,300 hits; association mining - 21,986 hits)