
                     Software that implements
 
          GAUSSIAN PROCESS REGRESSION AND CLASSIFICATION

Copyright (c) 2005, 2006 by Carl Edward Rasmussen and Chris Williams

Permission is granted for anyone to copy, use, or modify these programs for
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implied. As these programs were written for research purposes only, they
have not been tested to the degree that would be advisable in any
important application.  All use of these programs is entirely at the
user's own risk.

The code and associated documentation are avaiable from

http://www.GaussianProcess.org/gpml/code

Frank Hutter: using some of the files from GPML for SMAC. 
Major changes in the kernel: implemented joint discrete/continuous kernel, see covHybridSE_DIFFard and w_ham_dist
