Preface by the EEKM’2020 Organisers The XXIII International Conference on "Enterprise Engineering and Knowledge management" (EEKM-2020) took place from 8 to 9 December 2020 in the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics (Moscow). By tradition, EEKM conference is planned as a multidisciplinary forum of researchers and practitioners from various domains, promoting cooperation and exchange of ideas in different areas. The objectives of the EEKM-2020 scientific conference were: analysis and development of promising approaches, methods and tools to improve the efficiency of enterprise digital transformation (based on modern Artificial Intelligence technologies), risk management, BPMS-based business process management tools, service-oriented architecture and knowledge management. The EEKM conference is more focused on specific models, technologies and their effectiveness, in addition to great attention to the correct interpretation of the concepts. The main themes of the conference were: 1. Enterprise architecture based on end-to-end digital technologies 2. BPMS and business process management in the context of dynamic changes in business processes and enterprise architectures 3. Analysis of the requirements for new Artificial Intelligence and social networking technologies, considering new ways of communication in the enterprise and its ecosystem 4. System analysis and integrated architectural modeling of enterprises 5. Analysis and design of means of intellectual support for the activities and development of enterprises, taking into account their value and economic aspects 6. Models and methods for determining the effectiveness and efficiency of intelligent / "smart" technologies 7. Cognitive decision-making technologies 8. Knowledge management in a dynamic business environment and ontological engineering 9. Multimedia information systems and Semantic Web. 10. Service-oriented enterprise architectures and information systems. 11. Multi-agent systems of teamwork and decision making 12. Dynamic creation of digital, virtual and SMART enterprises 13. Big Data Processing Technologies and Machine Learning 14. The creation and management of the information and educational space of universities Tracks of the conference: • Cognitive and intelligent decision-making technologies • Knowledge management and enterprises ontological engineering • Digital enterprise transformation, architecture and transformation risk management • Modeling and of business processes management in the digital economy • Formation of new professions and educational programs in the digital economy • Student section • Student Research Competition • All-Russian Student Olympiad "APPLIED INFORMATICS" for undergraduate students • Meeting of the Methodological Council on the "Applied Informatics" of the Federal Training and Methodological Association in the direction 09.00.00 "Computer science and computing". The overall number of works presented at the conference was 61 plus 21 works at the student section. Most of the presentations are dedicated to the results of researches conducted in the organizations located on the territory of the Russian Federation including Moscow, St. Petersbug, Novosibirsk, Ulianovsk, Ekaterinburg, Kazan, Tomsk, Tver, as well as abroad: Kiel, Hamburg and Coburg (Gemany), Sofia (Bulgaria), Thohoyandou (South Africa). The conference Program Committee has reviewed 61 submissions and selected 29 papers, rejecting 32. May 2021 Yury Telnov Igor Fiodorov The EEKM’2020 Programme Committee Chair Vitaly Minashkin Dr., professor, Vice-Rector for Research, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia Deputy of the program committee Valery Titov Dr., professor, Director of the Faculty "Institute of digital economics and information technologies", Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia Yuri Telnov Dr., professor, chair of Applied Informatics, Faculty "Institute of digital economics and information technologies", Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, member of the board of Russian Association of Artificial Intelligence, Russia Yevgeny Zinder Chairman of the Board, Foundation for the Support of system design, standardization and project management, Russia Members of the program committee Alexander Averkin PhD., Associate Professor, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, member of the board of Russian Association of Artificial Intelligence, Russia Marina Anshina President, Foundation for the Support of system design, standardization and project management, Head of the Committee on Standards in the Union of IT Directors of Russia, Russia Alexander PhD., Director of NII "Strategic Information Technologies" Plekhanov Russian Boitchenko University of Economics, Russia Tatyana Gavrilova Dr., professor, chair IT in Management, High school of Management, St. Petersburg State University, member of the board of Russian Association of Artificial Intelligence, Russia Eduard Gerhardt Dr., prof. Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Art, Coburg, Germany Vladimir Golenkov Dr., professor, Belorussian State University if Informatics and Radioelectronics, member of the board of Russian Association of Artificial Intelligence, Belarus Alexander Danchul Dr., professor, chair IT in Management, Moscow City University of Management, Russia Ludmil Duridanov Dr. Digital Humanities / New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria Hannu Jaakkola Dr. prof. Emeritus TU/Tampere, Finland Armstrong PhD., professor University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa Kadyamatimba Georgy Kalyanov Dr., professor, Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Olga Kitova Dr., professor, chair of Business Informatics, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia Alexander Kulinich PhD., Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the board of Russian Association of Artificial Intelligence, Russia Mikhail Lugachov Dr., professor, chair of Economics in Informatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia Ludmila Massel Dr., professor, Melentiev Energy Systems Institute, Siberian Brunch of Russian Academy of Science, Russia Ochara Nixon DR.,Dr., professor, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Muganda Africa Piotr Pashkov Dr., professor, Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management, Russia Boris Pozin Dr., professor, Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics / Department of Information and Analytical Systems, Russia Galina Rybina Dr., professor, National Research Nuclear University, member of the board of Russian Association of Artificial Intelligence, Russia Alexander Sotnikov Dr. Professor, MSCC, RAS, Russia Arnold Sternharz Technical University of Berlin, Germany Vladimir Sukhomlin Dr., Professor, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia Bernhard Thalheim Dr., professor, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany Marina Tropmann- Dr., professor Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany Frik Valery Tarasov PhD., Associate Professor, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, member of the board of Russian Association of Artificial Intelligence, Russia Arkady Urintsov Dr., professor, chair IT management, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia Igor Fiodorov Dr., professor, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia Oleg Fediaev PhD., Associate Professor, chair Software Engineering, Donetsk State Technical University Arnold Sternharz PhD., Technical University of Berlin, Germany Elena Zubareva PhD., Associate Professor, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia Sponsors  Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow, Russia  Russian Association on Artificial Intelligence, Moscow, Russia  Foundation for the Support of System Design, Standardization and Project Management, Moscow, Russia  Methodological Council on the "Applied Informatics" of the Federal Training and Methodological Association in the direction 09.00.00 "Computer science and computing", Moscow, Russia  Fund for Promotion of Internet media, IT education, and Human development "League Internet Media", Moscow, Russia