关键词: 关联规则, 元规则, 马尔可夫链, 预测

Abstract: The association rule mining aims at the relationships between the items of the transaction data sets.Many algorithms for mining association rules are considered as static ones.In fact，it is possible that a rule will change greatly with time，so it is of great help to do further study and make a strategic decision to set up a meta-association rule for the rule，analyze and predict the change tendency of its support value and confidence value.By means of an example，this paper analyzes the usual mining process of the meta-association rules by Markov model.

Key words: association rule, meta-association rule, Markov chains, forecast