Gerald Bortis
Ph.D. StudentDepartment of Informatics
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Advisor: André van der Hoek
Contact
I can be reached at: gbortis [at] ics [dot] uci [dot] edu
Research
My research interest is in software design, especially the sort of design that happens at the whiteboard. More specifically, I am interested in the role that knowledge plays in this process and how it can be harnessed to improve both the design experience, and the resulting product.
I am currently developing DesignMinders, a note card based knowledge management system that augments electronic whiteboards to allow developers to capture, organize, and reuse knowledge during informal design sessions. The ultimate goal is to make knowledge that is normally lost after a design session more readily available during future sessions for reference, or inspiration.
I also work at Mirth Corporation as a lead and founding engineer for Mirth Connect, an open source healthcare integration engine.
Workshop Papers
- G. Bortis and A. van der Hoek, DesignMinders: A Design Knowledge Collaboration Approach, Third International Workshop on Knowledge Collaboration in Software Development, November 2009
- G. Bortis and A. van der Hoek, DesignMinders: Preserving and Sharing Informal Software Design Knowledge, 2009 ICSR Second Workshop on Knowledge Reuse, September 2009
- G. Bortis and A. van der Hoek, Software Pre-Patterns as Architectural Knowledge, 2008 ICSE Workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge, May 2008.
Conference Papers
- G. Bortis, Experiences with Mirth: An Open Source Health Care Integration Engine, 2008 ICSE Experience Track on Software Engineering in Health Care, May 2008.
- A. Sarma, G. Bortis, and A. van der Hoek, Towards Supporting Awareness of Indirect Conflicts across Software Configuration Management Workspaces, Twenty-second IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, November 2007.
