Although bottom-up approaches work for simple cases, there usually proves to be too large a number of attributes to analyse in more realistic situations.

"It's just the type of market where a bottom-up stock-picking approach works best," he said.

In the so-called 'bottom-up' approach data marts are first created to provide reporting and analytical capabilities for specific business processes.

In the 'bottom-up' approach, cosmic rays gain more and more energy through electromagnetic processes.

A slightly more bottom-up approach to meritocracy, no?

By taking a 'bottom-up' approach, the report aims to understand the needs of those most vulnerable to threats to the security of their food and livelihood.

Sometimes a 'bottom-up' approach may be better than a 'top-down'one.

Community-based 'bottom-up' approaches can perceive problems and issues that are specific to a local area.

From a 'bottom-up' approach Europeanisation occurs when states begin to affect the policy of the European Union in a given area.

A 'bottom-up' approach is the only way to regenerate rural areas.