This program is granted free of charge for research and education
purposes. However you must obtain a license from Fraunhofer FIRST 
in Berlin to use it for commercial purposes.

Scientific results produced using the software provided shall
acknowledge the use of the rbf network implementation provided 
by Gunnar Raetsch.
Please cite one of the following papers:

@article{RaeOnoMue01a,
  author =   {G.~R{\"a}tsch and T.~Onoda and K.--R.~M{\"u}ller},
  title =    "Soft Margins for {A}da{B}oost",
  year =     2001,
  journal =  "Machine Learning",
  note =     "also NeuroCOLT Technical Report NC-TR-1998-021",
  publisher =    "Kluwer Academic Publishers",
  month =    mar,
  volume =   42,
  number =   3,
  pages =    "287--320",
}

@Inproceedings{MueSmoRaeSchKohVap99,
   author    = "K.-R.~{M\"uller} and A.~Smola and G.~{R\"atsch} and
                  B.~{Sch\"ol\-kopf} and J.~Kohlmorgen and V.~Vapnik",
   title     = "Predicting Time Series with Support Vector Machines",
  publisher = {{MIT} Press},
  year =	 {1999},
  pages = {243--254},
  booktitle =	{Advances in Kernel Methods --- Support Vector Learning},
  editor =	 {B.~Sch\"olkopf and C.J.C.~Burges and A.J.~Smola},
  address =	 {Cambridge, MA}
}

If you plan to use it for non-scientific purposes, don't hesitate to
contact me.

BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT
WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER
PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE
PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME
THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR
DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM
(INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED
INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF
THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER
OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.


Gunnar Raetsch 

Last updated 30.05.05


