Sahar M. Abdel-Gaied received the B.Sc. degree from Assiut University, Egypt, in 1994, the M.Sc. degree from South Valley University, Egypt, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree from Assiut University Egypt in 2004. She is an Lecture at Assiut University-Egypt. Her research interests include information retrieval, genetic algorithms, image processing and networks