The Society of Modeling and Simulation International

Name

The Society of Modeling and Simulation International

Legal name

The Society for Modeling and Simulation International

Website

https://scs.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1952

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Society and Academic Publishing

NAICS

Business Associations (813910), Professional Organizations (813920), Book Publishers (513130)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Educational Services (8200), Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721), Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2731)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDAGAGAC

Engineering & Technical Standards (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical; Codes & Standards)

Education/Educational Publishing & Learning Content/Professional & Technical Reference Publishing

Keywords

• Modeling and simulation
• Professional society services
• Peer-reviewed journals
• Academic publishing
• Technical conferences

Headquarters

HQ city

San Diego

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues: Annual membership fees from individual (Student $29, Professional $119, Retiree $59, Developing Country $79) and corporate members (Silver $500, Gold $2,000, Platinum $5,000, Academic $2,500). Provides access to journals, conferences, webinars, job boards, and mentoring programs.
2. Conference Registration Fees: Revenue from annual conferences including ANNSIM and PowerPlantSim, with discounted rates for members. Includes professional development tutorials, technical sessions, and vendor exhibits.
3. Publication Access and Proceedings: Revenue from journal subscriptions (SIMULATION and JDMS), conference proceedings through Curran Publications, and special publications like the Body of Knowledge via Springer Nature. Members receive discounted access.
4. Exhibitor and Sponsorship Fees: Revenue from exhibitor booths, sponsorship packages (Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze tiers), and customized sponsorship opportunities at annual conferences.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

SCS is a non-profit professional society that operates a portfolio of membership services, peer-reviewed publications, and conferences for the modeling and simulation (M&S) community. It publishes two refereed journals (SIMULATION and JDMS), organizes annual flagship conferences (ANNSIM and PowerPlantSim), co-sponsors international conferences (Winter Simulation Conference, American Control Conference), maintains the M&S Body of Knowledge handbook, and offers a professional certification program plus tiered membership benefits to individuals, corporations, and academic institutions.

Product overview

The Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS) is a professional membership society that offers a portfolio of publications and conferences rather than a unified software product. The core offerings include two peer-reviewed journals (SIMULATION and JDMS), conference proceedings from multiple annual events (ANNSIM and PowerPlantSim), the Body of Knowledge handbook, and various membership tiers. These products serve the M&S professional community through academic publishing and event organizing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• SIMULATION: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International
• Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation (JDMS): Applications, Methodology, Technology
• Body of Knowledge (BoK) Handbook
• Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM)
• Power Plant Simulation Conference (PowerPlantSim)
• SCS Conference Proceedings
• SCS Membership Program
• Professional Certification Program

Named customers4 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• American Automatic Control Council (AACC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSCS co-sponsors the American Control Conference (ACC) with AACC and other national/international societies including AIAA, AIChE, ASCE, ASME, IEEE-CSS, INFORMS, ISA, and SIAM.
• INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSCS co-sponsors the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) with INFORMS, the leading conference in simulation featuring workshops, tutorials, case studies, poster sessions, and Ph.D. Colloquium.
• ASIM - German Simulation SocietyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational simulation society partnership for collaboration between M&S professionals in Germany and SCS global network.
• ACM SIGSIM (Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSCS and ACM SIGSIM are co-sponsors of the Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM), with indexed proceedings in Scopus/DBLP and ACM.
• IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics SocietycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIEEE SMC co-sponsors ANNSIM conference proceedings alongside SCS and ACM SIGSIM.
• European Multidisciplinary Society for Modelling and Simulation Technology (EUROSIS)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for European collaboration in modeling and simulation research and conferences.
• Federation of Asia Simulation Societies (ASIASIM)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for Asian regional collaboration in modeling and simulation.
• Federation of European Simulation Societies (EUROSIM)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for European simulation society collaboration.
• Sage PublicationscoreTechnology or IntegrationSCS journals (SIMULATION and JDMS) are published through Sage Publications, providing global distribution and online access through SAGE's platform.
• Curran ProceedingscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSCS conference proceedings are assembled and distributed by Curran Proceedings, offering archived proceedings to libraries worldwide.
• Springer NaturecoreTechnology or IntegrationSCS Body of Knowledge (BoK) handbook published in cooperation with Springer Nature, making it available to academic institutions and professionals.
• University of Central Florida - School of Modeling, Simulation & TrainingcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership with UCF as an Academic Member of SCS, hosting ANNSIM 2026 at the L3 Harris Engineering Building.
• Wroclaw University of Science and TechnologycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership hosting ANNSIM 2027 in Wroclaw, Poland, with General Chair Dr. Wojciech Bożejko from the university.
• Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center (VMASC)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch collaboration partnership with Old Dominion University's modeling and simulation research center.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• ASIM (German Simulation Society): Germany's national simulation society, partnered with SCS through EUROSIM. ASIM organizes German-language M&S conferences and serves a similar practitioner and academic community, making it the most direct European regional peer organization.
• INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences): Co-sponsor of the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) with SCS and a leading professional society for operations research and analytics. INFORMS publishes IISE Transactions and other journals and shares the same applied modeling and simulation audience, making it a closely comparable scholarly society.
• American Automatic Control Council (AACC): Co-sponsor of the American Control Conference (ACC) with SCS and other major societies (AIAA, ASME, IEEE-CSS, etc.). AACC serves the controls and dynamical systems community with overlapping simulation use cases, comparable as a multi-society federation member.
• EUROSIS (European Multidisciplinary Society for Modelling and Simulation Technology): European multidisciplinary M&S society partnered with SCS. EUROSIS hosts multiple applied simulation conferences and shares the practitioner-oriented mission of advancing M&S methods, comparable as a conference and publication-driven society.
• IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society: Co-sponsor of ANNSIM with SCS and ACM SIGSIM. IEEE SMC serves researchers in systems engineering, cybernetics, and human-machine systems, overlapping heavily with SCS membership interests in discrete event and agent-based simulation.
• ACM SIGSIM: ACM's Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling, the most direct peer to SCS. ACM SIGSIM co-sponsors ANNSIM with SCS and publishes the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), targeting the same M&S researcher community with overlapping conference proceedings and journal offerings.
• EUROSIM (Federation of European Simulation Societies): Federation of European simulation societies partnering with SCS for cross-continental collaboration. EUROSIM aggregates the same M&S disciplinary interests at a pan-European level, comparable in mission and conference-driven model.

Broad incumbents

• AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence): Premier AI scientific society whose expanding coverage of AI-based modeling and simulation directly overlaps with SCS's AI-based M&S track. AAAI serves a much broader membership but competes for the same simulation-aware AI research community.
• SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics): Major applied mathematics society co-sponsoring ACC with SCS. SIAM publishes journals on computational mathematics and serves a broader applied research community whose work intersects with M&S, comparable as a wider scholarly society with simulation-relevant content.

Regional players

• ASIASIM (Federation of Asia Simulation Societies): Federation of Asian simulation societies partnering with SCS. ASIASIM mirrors SCS's role regionally across Asia, serving a comparable M&S community through conferences and collaborations, but does not directly compete for members outside Asia.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

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