DATABASE POLICIES ----------------- Indexing scheme for efficient storing and searching for policies in a DBMS. Policies here are expressed as conjunctions of atomic predicates where the domain of predicates can be a numeric, string or regular expressions. Possible schemes : A R-tree like data structure Research Issues : Measure of policy similarity. Union of policies. Intersection of policies. Policy clustering. NON-PARAMETRIC DENSITY ESTIMATION FROM UNCERTAIN DATA ----------------------------------------------------- To estimate the probability mass function of an uncertain attribute using the concept of entropy maximization.