I want to apply apriori algorithm in HADOOP. I need to refer to a research paper which explains how pair is passed in mapper / reduces of HADOOP with a suitable example.
I think Mahout, a data mining Hadoop-base framework, recommender system algorithms. Check the item-item similarity, which is very close to what you need.
Take a look of the paper: Jeffrey Dean and al.' "MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters", USENIX Association, OSDI'04: 6th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation.