It is well known that the world consists of a large number of natural as well as man-made systems, invariably both complex and dynamic. Our knowledge about these systems depends on advances made in science and technology. The boundaries between different fields of study have started disappearing and interdisciplinary research is increasingly used in exploring holistic systems rather than remaining confined to old demarcations of fields. Thus, to facilitate such studies such systems are divided into several subsystems . The prediction of the behavior of the system on the basis of the characteristics of the subsystems is generally made using the system approach. This has been possible due to the emergence of fields like Non-linear deterministic and Stochastic modeling, and computer simulation. which have found applications to complex systems in Science, Biological, Social and Engineering systems.

In the early nineties, a group of ten faculty members (Professors J. B. Shukla, N. G. R. Iyengar, R. K. Jain, D. P. Rao, N. S. V. Kameswara Rao, S. K. Gupta, S. C. Srivastava, Peeyush Chandra, B. Deo, A. K. Sharma) from various disciplines at the Institute of Technology Kanpur felt the need to form a forum where scientists from different disciplines can meet and discuss various relevant problems that human society faces today. With this objective, they formed a forum named the Indian Academy of Mathematical Modeling in Engineering and Sciences in 1993. On getting support from many scientists at the national level, this Academy was renamed as 'Indian Society for Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation' in 1996 with Prof. Roddam Narasimha as its first President and Prof. J. B. Shukla as the first General Secretary. The first National Conference of ISMMACS was held at NAL, Bangalore on December 17 and 18, 1996. Some selected papers from the Conference were published in Sadhana,Vol. 24, issue 1-2, 1999