Association rule mining is the core technology of data mining. The Apriori algorithm is introduced and applied to the process of students taking courses and teaching themselves by a network teaching system. On the basis of large amounts of data, frequent itemsets will be found by the Apriori algorithm. The frequent itemsets describe the relation between students' characteristics and their behavior of taking courses. According to these relations, when a new student first takes courses, the teaching system can intelligently predict his/her te...
