In the past, the fuzzy shortest path problem in a network has attracted attention from many researchers for its importance to various applications. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm to deal with the fuzzy shortest path problem. It is composed of fuzzy shortest path length procedure and similarity measure. The former is presented to determine the fuzzy shortest path length from source node to the destination node in the network, and the latter is used to measure the similarity degree between fuzzy length sets. This algorithm not only can yield shortest length but also can offer the actual shortest path to decision makers. An illustrative example is also included to demonstrate our proposed algorithm. (~)
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