关联规则挖掘的研究工作主要包括：Apriori算法的扩展、数量关联规则挖掘、关联规则增量式更新、无须生成候选项目集的关联规则挖掘、最大频繁项目集挖掘、约束性关联规则挖掘以及并行及分布关联规则挖掘算法等，其中快速挖掘与更新频繁项目集是关联规则挖掘研究的重点，也是多种数据挖掘应用中的技术关键，已用于分类规则挖掘和网络入侵检测等方面的研究。研究者还对数据挖掘的理论进行了有益的探索，将概念格和粗糙集应用于关联规则挖掘中，获得了显著的效果。到目前为止，关联规则的挖掘已经取得了令人瞩目的成绩，包括：单机环境下的关联规则挖掘算法；多值属性关联规则挖掘；关联规则更新算法；基于约束条件的关联规则挖掘；关联规则并行及分布挖掘算法等。-Association rule mining research work include: Apriori algorithm for the expansion of the number of association rules mining, incremental updating of association rules, there is no need to generate candidate itemsets of association rule mining, maximal frequent itemsets mining, association rule mining binding, as well as parallel and Distribution of association rule mining algorithm, one of the rapid mining frequent itemsets and updating of association rules mining are the focus of the study, but also a variety of data mining technology in key applications, has been used in classification rules mining and network intrusion detection studies. The researchers also carried out the theory of data mining has made useful explorations, to concept lattice and rough sets in association rule mining applied to obtain significant results. So far, the mining association rules has made remarkable achievements, including: stand-alone environment for mining association rules algorithm　many associatio