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BOTTOM-UP APPROACH [8 records]

Record 1 2022-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Modelling (Mathematics)
  • Ecosystems
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

A new approach to aquatic ecosystem analysis is suggested in which [the] top-down reductionist approach is replaced by a bottom-up approach using autonomous agents (programs to represent individual animals). This approach is exemplified by ... an artificial life system designed ... for modeling population behavior and evolution.

OBS

[The] "bottom-up" approach to the generation of complex behavior is more powerful and simple than that generated by conventional system models, which are constructed in top-down fashion. The behavior of the fish school as a whole does not depend on the internal details of the entities from which it is constructed. It depends only on the details of the way in which these entities behave in each other's presence. ... it is possible to capture within an aggregate of artificial entities a very lifelike behavior.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Modélisation (Mathématique)
  • Écosystèmes
  • Pêche commerciale

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Studies and Analyses
  • Scientific Research Methods
OBS

bottom-up approach: term standardized by Environment Canada and the Translation Bureau for use in the Black Carbon Inventory.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Études et analyses environnementales
  • Méthodes de recherche scientifique
OBS

approche ascendante : terme normalisé par Environnement Canada et le Bureau de la traduction dans le cadre de l’inventaire de carbone noir.

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Engineering
  • Atomic Physics
DEF

The fabrication of nanoparticles and nanostructures starting from the bottom (the atoms), and building them atom-by-atom through spontaneous assembly.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ingénierie
  • Physique atomique
DEF

Élaboration de nanoparticules et nanostructures à partir des éléments de base de la matière (atomes), et conception atome par atome grâce à un assemblage spontané.

Spanish

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Record 4 2014-11-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
OBS

For the information architect and in content management, "bottom up" refers to collecting all the content with a content audit or content inventory, then making room for everything in an ad hoc manner, depending on the content tools being used, such as website navigation, search engines, etc. The opposite, top-down design, looks at the big picture first to arrange content in its natural context.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique

Spanish

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Record 5 2012-02-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
DEF

An investment strategy that first seeks individual companies with attractive investment potential, then proceeds to consider the larger economic and industry trends affecting those companies.

OBS

A person following [the bottom-up approach] will be looking very closely at the company's management, history, business model, growth prospects and other company characteristics: he or she will not be considering general industry and economic trends and then extrapolating them to the specific company.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
DEF

Approche utilisée par les analystes financiers, qui consiste à étudier une valeur déterminée en analysant les résultats d'une entreprise, ses investissements, sa stratégie et son environnement concurrentiel avant de formuler un avis.

CONT

L'approche dite ascendante ou bottom-up, de bas en haut, consiste moins à faire le chemin inverse qu'à sélectionner des titres sans attacher une grande importance à l'examen d'un secteur industriel ou à l'étude de la conjoncture économique d'ensemble d'une société.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inversiones
OBS

De este enfoque se dice que mediante su utilización no se analizan empresas, sino valores. Se analizan oportunidades de inversión, independientemente de las perspectivas de las economías [sean internacionales o domésticas] o de los sectores en su conjunto.

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Record 6 1994-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

Employing forward-chaining of rules to search for the goal (event-driven or data-driven control structure).

CONT

... a bottom-up approach in which the task in the appropriate level of abstraction is derived from the most specific tasks in the domain.

CONT

The project has taken a bottom-up approach in that a specific topic has been identified for demonstration of feasibility and the solution to this specific problem will subsequently be generalized to a wider set of application domains.

OBS

As opposed to "top-down approach."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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Record 7 1986-07-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

In a bottom-up approach ... The actual of a focal task or situation are assumed to exert primary influence on a subject's performance. I shall often identify molar with "top-down" and molecular with "bottom-up" not because each is logically bound to the other, but because they often, and typically, occur together.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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Record 8 1985-05-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Operations (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations de la gestion (Généralités)
OBS

Lexique de la Commission de la Fonction publique.

Spanish

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