  Association Rule Mining (ARM) is one of the well know and most researched
technique of data mining. There are so many ARM algorithms have been designed
that their counting is a large number. In this paper we have surveyed the
various ARM algorithms in four computing environments. The considered computing
environments are sequential computing, parallel and distributed computing, grid
computing and cloud computing. With the emergence of new computing paradigm,
ARM algorithms have been designed by many researchers to improve the efficiency
by utilizing the new paradigm. This paper represents the journey of ARM
algorithms started from sequential algorithms, and through parallel and
distributed, and grid based algorithms to the current state-of-the-art, along
with the motives for adopting new machinery.
