0 considering the smaller or less important parts or details of a plan, organization, etc. first: --
a bottom-up approach to building a successful company
1 starting at the lowest levels or from the smallest details of an organization, system, plan, etc.: --
He criticized the governor's proposal as a 'top-down solution to a bottom-up problem'.
The union prides itself on a being a member-driven, bottom-up organization.
In the bottom-up approach, investment analysts produce earnings forecasts on the basis of detailed research into the firm's activities.
The richness of these bottom-up sources of redundancy leaves little room for any top-down sources to improve the phonological yield.
This politics of non-decisions gave rise to a bottom-up development of social policy arrangements.
Do leaf-cutting ant nests make 'bottom-up' gaps in neotropical rain forests?
The electoral majority the government rests on is top-down, not bottom-up, and thus is not one created by the voters' expressed preferences.
First, there is tremendous ambiguity in the speech signal, which makes it very unlikely that a pure bottom-up analysis can be efficient.
This leaves open the possibility that bottom-up connectionist models, with some contextual constraints built into the access process, are still preferred models of spoken-word recognition.
It is sometimes referred to as a "bottom-up" or inductive approach.
It uses a standard bottom-up, best-first probabilistic parser to first generate possible parses before ranking them with a probabilistic model.
