Maytham Safar

Maytham Safar is currently an Associate Professor at the Computer Engineering Department at Kuwait University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 2000. He authored and editied several books, conference and journal articles. Current research interests include social networks, complex networks, and geographic information systems. He is a Senior Member of IEEE since 2008, and the First Kuwaiti to become an ACM Senior member in 2009. He is also a member of IEEE Computer Society, IADIS, @WAS, SDIWC and INSNA. He was granted over eleven research grants from research administration at Kuwait University, and Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS). He also served as a member of editorial board, steering committee, organizing committee, publicity committee, and reviewer for over a hundred of conferences and journals. Established the first complex networks research group (Synergy) at Kuwait University, http://synergy.ku.edu.kw, 2010.

Publications

PECA: Power Efficient Clustering Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks
PECA: Power Efficient Clustering Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks
Maytham Safar, Hasan Al-Hamadi, Dariush Ebrahimi. © 2013. 10 pages.
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) have emerged in many applications as a platform to collect data and monitor a specified area with minimal human intervention. The initial...
Social Networking and Community Behavior Modeling: Qualitative and Quantitative Measures
Social Networking and Community Behavior Modeling: Qualitative and Quantitative Measures
Maytham Safar, Khaled Mahdi. © 2012. 400 pages.
Social networks have emerged as a major trend in computing and social paradigms in the past few years. The social network model helps to inform the study of community behavior...
A Cache Replacement Policy for Location Dependent Data in Mobile Environments
A Cache Replacement Policy for Location Dependent Data in Mobile Environments
Mary Magdalene Jane. F, R Nadarajan, Maytham Safar. © 2012. 10 pages.
Cache hit ratio is employed as the primary performance metric where the higher the cache hit ratio, the higher the local data availability, lower uplink and downlink costs and...
PECA: Power Efficient Clustering Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks
PECA: Power Efficient Clustering Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks
Maytham Safar, Hasan Al-Hamadi, Dariush Ebrahimi. © 2011. 10 pages.
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) have emerged in many applications as a platform to collect data and monitor a specified area with minimal human intervention. The initial...
A Spatio-Temporal Cache Replacement Policy for Location Dependent Data in Mobile Environments
A Spatio-Temporal Cache Replacement Policy for Location Dependent Data in Mobile Environments
Mary Magdalene Jane.F, R. Nadarajan, Maytham Safar. © 2010. 18 pages.
Data caching in mobile clients is an important technique to enhance data availability and improve data access time. Due to cache size limitations, cache replacement policies are...
eDAR Algorithm for Continuous KNN Queries Based on Pine
eDAR Algorithm for Continuous KNN Queries Based on Pine
Maytham Safar, Dariush Ebrahimi. © 2009. 21 pages.
The continuous K nearest neighbor (CKNN) query is an important type of query that finds continuously the KNN to a query point on a given path. We focus on moving queries issued...
Streaming of Continuous Media for Distance Education Systems
Streaming of Continuous Media for Distance Education Systems
Ali Dashti, Maytham Safar. © 2009. 27 pages.
Distance education created new challenges regarding the delivery of large size isochronous continuous streaming media (SM) objects. In this paper, we consider the design of a...
Streaming of Continuous Media for Distance Education Systems
Streaming of Continuous Media for Distance Education Systems
Ali Dashti, Maytham Safar. © 2007. 25 pages.
Distance education created new challenges regarding the delivery of large size isochronous continuous streaming media (SM) objects. In this paper, we consider the design of a...
eDAR Algorithm for Continuous KNN Queries Based on Pine
eDAR Algorithm for Continuous KNN Queries Based on Pine
Maytham Safar, Dariush Ebrahimi. © 2006. 21 pages.
The continuous K nearest neighbor (CKNN) query is an important type of query that continuously finds the KNN to a query point on a given path. In this article we focus on moving...