Abbas, MujahidMurtaza, GhulamRomaguera, Salvador2016-06-102016-06-102016-01-28Abbas, M, Murtaza, G & Romaguera, S 2016, 'On the fixed point theory of soft metric spaces', Fixed Point Theory and Applications, vol. 1, art. #17, pp. 1-11.1687-1820 (print)1687-1812 (online)10.1186/s13663-016-0502-yhttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/53022The aim of this paper is to show that a soft metric induces a compatible metric on the collection of all soft points of the absolute soft set, when the set of parameters is a finite set. We then show that soft metric extensions of several important fixed point theorems for metric spaces can be directly deduced from comparable existing results. We also present some examples to validate and illustrate our approach.en© 2016 Abbas et al. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Soft mappingSoft metric spaceSoft contractionSoft Caristi mappingArticle