2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/71670In this paper we put a cofibrantly generated model category structure on the category of small simplicial categories. The weak equivalences are a simplicial analogue of the notion of equivalence of categories.16 pages, revised version has proof of right properness and a few minor changes; to appear in Transactions of the AMSAlgebraic TopologyCategory Theory18G55; 18D20A model category structure on the category of simplicial categoriestext