A description of the business network

The READ.ME file contains a natural language description of the network in terms of its assets, participants, transactions, and events.

The participant descriptions

The participants are listed in the business network description:

Participants
 Customer, BankEmployee

In our example, there are four participant instances—Alice and Bob, Matias and Ella. But notice how there are only two participant types, namely Customer and Employee. In our network, Alice and Bob are participants of the Customer type, whereas Matias and Ella are participants of the BankEmployee type. We can see that these types are named from the perspective of a bank–that's because the network service is being provided by the Dinero and Eastwood banks, and used by Alice and Bob. We're going to see more details about these participant types and the particular instances in the network soon. But for now, just think about how we've reduced the actors in the network to two very simple representations...