On the Status of Boundaries, both Natural and Organizational: A Complex Systems Perspective

Review of Automatic Feature Extraction from High-Resolution Optical Sensor Data for UAV-Based Cadastral Mapping

“…In such cases, cadastral boundaries seek to handle overlapping access rights and to grant spatiotemporal mobility [54][55][56]. As shown, a cadastral boundary does not merely include spatial aspects, but those of time and scale as well [57,58].…”

“…Even with a thorough description of linear boundary features, methods that extract visible features only are not capable of extracting the entirety of boundary features. This might include socially constructed boundaries that are not visible to an optical sensor [51,57]. The detection of such boundaries can be supported through model-driven approaches that generate a contour around land plots based on a priori knowledge.…”

Modernisation as an Organising Language for Higher Education in the South African Public Administration: Implications on Public Policy Interventions

“…Although scholars like Max-Neef (2005) in outlining the foundations of disciplinarity classify such along the levels ranging from complication to complexity; Contemporary Science with its strong positivism tends to trivialise the nature of boundaries and hierarchies ) especially within the practice of public administration whereby some aspects are dealt with do not assume objective values like it tend to be in rational science (see also Nyamnjoh, 2012). Boundaries are supposedly real and the ability to recognise them as such is regarded as a straightforward exercise yet is not the case within the practice of public administration, more so where the phenomenon being dealt with is complex Richardson & Lissack, 2001;Nkuna & Sebola, 2012). It is only through Complexity thinking mode that one is forced to review conceptions of what natural boundaries are (Richardson & Lissack, 2001) among systems as they interact with each other in the practice of public administration.…”

“…Boundaries are supposedly real and the ability to recognise them as such is regarded as a straightforward exercise yet is not the case within the practice of public administration, more so where the phenomenon being dealt with is complex Richardson & Lissack, 2001;Nkuna & Sebola, 2012). It is only through Complexity thinking mode that one is forced to review conceptions of what natural boundaries are (Richardson & Lissack, 2001) among systems as they interact with each other in the practice of public administration. Questions to contend with are: Are they real in some absolute sense?…”

“…In complex systems different domains can emerge that might even display qualitatively different behaviours from their neighboring domains. A domain herein is simply defined as an apparently autonomous structure that differentiates itself from the whole (Richardson & Lissack, 2001). The apparent autonomy is illusory, however all domains are emergent structures that persist for undecidedly different durations like in public administration practice.…”