Eduard Babkin is a tenured professor in the Department of Information Systems and Technologies of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), where he is the head in the Research Laboratory of Theory and Practice of Decision Support Systems (TAPRADESS). Eduard worked in the IT industry for leading software companies, he has more than twenty years of practical experience in architecting and model-based software engineering of complex distributed information systems. In 2007, he obtained his PhD in Computer Science from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (Rouen, France). Since that time, he has carried out scientific research in enterprise engineering and knowledge management engineering as a principal investigator or a team lead. Currently Eduard is mostly interested in multidisciplinary studies where advances of conceptual modelling, distributed algorithms and multi-agent systems can be applied for relevant problems in decisionsupport, semantic interoperability and software engineering.Boris Ulitin holds a PhD in Computer Science and works as an associate professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. He holds several copyright certificates in the field of domain-specific languages and adaptive information systems. He is a regular participant in international conferences in the field of business informatics, as well as several ‘strategic projects’ for the digitalization of various types of enterprises.