An Extension of the Polyhedral Analysis from the two-valued to the multivalued Consideration of Features of Objects for the purpose of integrating Soft-facts into the Genesis of a Business Network

摘要

Starting form the basic model of the Polyhedral Analysis (PHA) this paper introduces an extension of that model. That further development allows it to investigate social relationships in business networks dependent on the intensity of occurrence of their specific abilities and characterizations (in the following called attributes). By the means of the basic Polyhedral Analysis, these so-called soft-facts can be analysed and evaluated. For this purpose, the measure of connectivity of the network actors (in the following called objects) as well as the measure of an object's eccentricity can be calculated. The calculation rules of those two parameters differ from the standard model and thus are the topic of that contribution. Additionally, the introduction of weights for the features might lead to a further extension of the perceptions. Finally, for the evaluation of the results of the Polyhedral Analysis, several statistic parameters are introduced and explained. This extension of the Polyhedral Analysis from the two-valued to the multivalued consideration of features for the integration of soft-facts into the genesis of business networks is called Continuous Polyhedral Analysis (CPHA).