《IEEE系统人控制论系统汇刊》的范围包括系统工程领域。它包括与大型系统的定义、开发和部署相关的任何系统工程生命周期阶段的问题制定、分析和建模、决策和问题解释。此外，它还包括系统管理、系统工程过程和各种系统工程方法，如优化、建模和仿真。
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.