FACULTEIT ECONOMIE EN BEDRIJFSKUNDE TWEEKERKENSTRAAT 2 B-9000 GENT Tel. : 32 - (0)9 – 264.34.61 Fax. : 32 - (0)9 – 264.35.92 WORKING PAPER Kernel Factory: An Ensemble of Kernel Machines Michel Ballings 1 Dirk Van den Poel 2 December 2012 2012/825 1 Researcher, Ghent University 2 Corresponding author: Prof. Dr. Dirk Van den Poel, Professor of Marketing Analytics / analytical Customer Relationship Management, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, dirk.vandenpoel@ugent.be; The R software is available for free download from: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/kernelFactory/index.html D/2012/7012/58