Safar Maytham

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

WEBCAP: Web Scheduler for Distance Learning Multimedia Documents with Web Workload Considerations
WEBCAP: Web Scheduler for Distance Learning Multimedia Documents with Web Workload Considerations
Habib Sami, Safar Maytham. © 2010. 15 pages.
In many web applications, such as the distance learning, the frequency of refreshing multimedia web documents places a heavy burden on the WWW resources. Moreover, the updated...