Read the marketing material for any fund and you'll often find the manager saying that they take either a "top-down" or a "bottom-up" approach. Sometimes they claim to do both: "the fund combines ...

One of these is known as bottom-up processing and the other is top-down processing. Data driven Focuses on incoming sensory data Takes place in real time Info is interpreted using contextual clues ...

The concrete fills the form under the window and pushes from the bottom up into the columns." The rest of the sections of the wall were placed from the top down. ABI Corp. used a superplasticizer ...