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In this paper, we demonstrate the use of decision tree induction for the creation of a marketing strategy for a new pet insurance company, PetPlan USA. We employ both a traditional C4.5 decision tree approach, and a novel locally profit-optimal decision algorithm, called SBP, to discover the characteristics of profitable demographics for PetPlan to market to. We use publicly available data, including...