The scope of the IEEE Transactions on Systems Man Cybernetics-Systems includes the fields of systems engineering. It includes issue formulation, analysis and modeling, decision making, and issue interpretation for any of the systems engineering lifecycle phases associated with the definition, development, and deployment of large systems. In addition, it includes systems management, systems engineering processes, and a variety of systems engineering methods such as optimization, modeling and simulation.

《IEEE系統(tǒng)人控制論系統(tǒng)匯刊》的范圍包括系統(tǒng)工程領(lǐng)域。它包括與大型系統(tǒng)的定義、開發(fā)和部署相關(guān)的任何系統(tǒng)工程生命周期階段的問題制定、分析和建模、決策和問題解釋。此外，它還包括系統(tǒng)管理、系統(tǒng)工程過程和各種系統(tǒng)工程方法，如優(yōu)化、建模和仿真。