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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Abstract and Applied Analysis Volume 2012, Article ID 605781, 15 pages doi:10.1155/2012/605781 Research Article Comparison Functions and Fixed Point Results in Partial Metric Spaces Nawab Hussain,1 Zoran Kadelburg,2 ´ 3 4 Stojan Radenovic, and Falleh Al-Solamy 1 Department of Mathematics, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia 2 Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Studentski Trg 16, 11000 Beograd, Serbia 3 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Kraljice Marije 16, 11120 Beograd, Serbia 4 Department of Mathematics, Tabuk University, Tabuk 71491, Saudi Arabia Correspondence should be addressed to Nawab Hussain, nhusain@.sa Received 2 February 2012; Accepted 15 March 2012 Academic Editor: Liming Ge Copyright q 2012 Nawab Hussain et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The aim of this article is to clearly formulate various possible assumptions for a comparison function in contractive conditions and to deduce respective common fixed point results in partial metric spaces. Since standard metric spaces are special cases, these results also apply for them. We will show by examples that there exist situations when a partial metric result can be applied, while the standard metric one cannot. 1. Introduction In recent years many authors have worked on domain theory in order to equip semantics domain with a notion of distance. In particular, Matthews 1 introduced the notion of a partial metric space as a part of