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系統人控制論系統匯刊》的范圍包括系統工程領域。它包括與大型系統的定義、開發和部署相關的任何系統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，它還包括系統管理、系統工程過程和各種系統工程方法，如優化、建模和仿真。