Program: Transaction Network Generator

Transaction network generator is a Python script to generate a network topology for the simulator.

Requirements

• Python package
  • NetworkX 1.10 (2.0 or later will not work)

Input files

Parameter files

Please find the following CSV files under paramFiles directory. The description of the data schema is here.

• accounts.csv: Account parameter file
• alertPatterns.csv: Alert (fraud) transaction pattern parameter file
• degree.csv: Degree distribution parameter file
• transactionType.csv: Transaction distribution parameter file

Configuration file

• prop.ini: Property file

How to run

python scripts/transaction_graph_generator.py [PropFile] [DegreeFile] [TransactionTypeFile] [AlertFile]

• PropFile: Configuration file path (prop.ini) of the transaction graph generator
• DegreeFile: Degree distribution parameter file
• TransactionTypeFile: Transaction type parameter file
• AlertFile: Alert parameter file

Example:

python scripts/transaction_relationship_generator.py prop.ini paramFiles/deg1K.csv paramFiles/tx_type.csv paramFiles/alerts.csv