P. J. Tan and D. L. Dowe (2004). MML Inference of Oblique Decision Trees, Proc. 17th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'04), Cairns, Qld., Australia, Dec. 2004, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 3339, Springer-Verlag, pp1082-1088. http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/Publications/2004/Tan+Dowe2004.ref % Among other things, this gives a reasonable initial model of MML SVMs (MML SVM) % (Minimum Message Length Support Vector Machines). The paper is downloadable as postscript (.ps) from http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/Publications/2004/Tan+DoweAI2004.ps or as .pdf from http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/Publications/2004/Tan+DoweAI2004.pdf .