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Egyptian computer scientist (1953–2019)

Hussein S. M. Zedan (1 July 1953 – 23 February 2019) was a computer scientist of Egyptian descent, mainly based in the United Kingdom.^[2]

Hussein Zedan was born in 1953. He received his PhD degree in 1981 at the University of Bristol, studying under John Derwent Pryce and Hubert Schwetlick for a thesis entitled Modified Rosenbrock-Wanner methods for solving systems of stiff ordinary differential equations.^[1]

Zedan was an academic in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York. Prof. Zedan then headed the Software Technology Research Laboratory (STRL) as Technical Director^[3] at De Montfort University.^[4][5] He was also Head of Computing Research.^[3] Later STRL was headed by Zedan’s PhD student and subsequently colleague François Siewe.^[6] Zedan was subsequently appointed Assistant Vice-President of Academic Affairs and Development at the Applied Science University^[7] in Manama, Bahrain, until 2017.^[8]

Hussein Zedan died on 23 February 2019.^[2][9] He was married with two daughters.

• Zedan, H.S.M., ed. (1990). Distributed Computer Systems. Butterworths. ISBN 0-408-02938-2.
• Scholefield, D.; Zedan, H.; He, Jifeng (1994). “A specification-oriented semantics for the refinement of real-time systems”. Theoretical Computer Science. 131 (1): 219–241. doi:10.1016/0304-3975(94)90096-5.
• Cau, A.; Zedan, H. (1997). “Refining interval temporal logic specifications”. Transformation-Based Reactive Systems Development (ARTS 1997). International AMAST Workshop on Aspects of Real-Time Systems and Concurrent and Distributed Software. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 1231. Springer-Verlag. pp. 79–94. doi:10.1007/3-540-63010-4_6. hdl:2086/40. ISBN 978-3-540-63010-4.
• Siewe, F.; Cau, A.; Zedan, H. (October 2003). “A compositional framework for access control policies enforcement”. Proceedings of the 2003 ACM workshop on Formal methods in security engineering. ACM. pp. 32–42. doi:10.1145/1035429.1035433. ISBN 1581137818. S2CID 6519229.
• Solanki, M.; Cau, A.; Zedan, H. (2004). “Augmenting semantic web service descriptions with compositional specification”. Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web. ACM. pp. 544–552. doi:10.1145/988672.988746. ISBN 158113844X. S2CID 16034615.
• Al-Ajlan, A.; Zedan, H. (October 2008). Why Moodle. 12th IEEE International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems. IEEE. pp. 58–64. doi:10.1109/FTDCS.2008.22. ISBN 978-0-7695-3377-3. S2CID 16570077.
• Hierons, R.M.; Bogdanov, K.; Bowen, J.P.; Cleaveland, R.; Derrick, J.; Dick, J.; Gheorghe, M.; Harman, M.; Kapoor, K.; Krause, P.; Lüttgen, G.; Simons, A.J.H.; Vilkomir, S.A.; Woodward, M.R.; Zedan, H. (2009). “Using formal specifications to support testing”. ACM Computing Surveys. 41 (2). ACM: 1–76. doi:10.1145/1459352.1459354. S2CID 10686134.
• Alalwan, N.; Zedan, H.; Siewe, F. (2009). “Generating OWL Ontology for Database Integration”. 2009 Third International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing. ACM. pp. 22–31. doi:10.1109/SEMAPRO.2009.21. ISBN 978-1-4244-5044-2. S2CID 10213520.
• Siewe, F.; Cau, A.; Zedan, H. (July 2011). “The calculus of context-aware ambients”. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 77 (4). Elsevier: 597–620. doi:10.1016/j.jcss.2010.02.003.
• Al-Sultan, S.; Al-Bayatti, A.H.; Zedan, H. (May 2013). “Context-aware driver behavior detection system in intelligent transportation systems”. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 62 (9). IEEE: 4264–4275. doi:10.1109/TVT.2013.2263400. S2CID 10826583.
• Al-Sultan, S.; Al-Doori, M.M.; Al-Bayatti, A.H.; Zedan, H. (January 2014). “A comprehensive survey on vehicular ad hoc networks”. Journal of Network and Computer Applications. 37. Elsevier: 380–392. doi:10.1016/j.jnca.2013.02.036. S2CID 40636470.
• Bowen, J.P.; Hinchey, M.; Janicke, H.; Ward, M.; Zedan, H. (October 2014). “Formality, agility, security, and evolution in software engineering”. Computer. 47 (10). IEEE: 86–89. doi:10.1109/MC.2014.284. hdl:2086/12634. S2CID 16101256. – republished as: