In this paper we investigate the problem of selecting a committee consisting of k members from a list of m candidates. Each candidate has a certain cost or weight. The choice of the k-committee has to satisfy some budget or weight constraint: the sum of the weights of all committee members must...

This paper considers cost sharing rules for the continuous knapsack problem. We assume a knapsack with a weight constraint to be filled with items of different weights chosen from a set of items. The cost of the knapsack needs to be shared among the individuals who approve or disapprove of...