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.:
In the bottom-up approach, investment analysts produce earnings forecasts on the basis of detailed research into the firm's activities.
The union prides itself on a being a member-driven, bottom-up organization.
He criticized the governor's proposal as a 'top-down solution to a bottom-up problem'.
Forthcoming procedures for the analysis of electroacoustic music should derive from the synthesis of top-down and bottom-up views derived from different competences.
The bottom-up definition of fork-node trees given in section 4.3 captures these structural constraints.
The bottom-up priority rule at its essence directs lexical knowledge as to when it can inform phoneme decisions.
The top-level interface uses a bottom-up approach to evaluating real numbers and is thus not a genuine type-2 implementation.
This approach relieves the problems existing in a bottom-up approach and those in a top-down approach.
Repeated spatial or temporal coincidences between top-down expectation signals and bottom-up input signals reinforce the relative weights of signal exchanges in a given neural circuit.
Because the aim of our approach is to acquire know-how knowledge without disrupting a normal design process, we adopted a bottom-up approach.
It uses a standard bottom-up, best-first probabilistic parser to first generate possible parses before ranking them with a probabilistic model.
