Constraint Retraction for Dynamic Constraint Satisfaction Problems over Disjoint Real Intervals -- Computational Methods for Large Distributed Parameter Estimation Problems in 3D -- Robust Parameter Estimation for Identifying Satellite Injection Orbits -- On the Numerical Simulation of the Free Fall Problem -- Searching the Web: a Semantics-Based Approach -- Adaptive Computation with Perfectly Matched Layers for the Wave Scattering by Periodic Structures -- Simulation and Optimization of Crawling Robots -- Modelling of Snake-Like Locomotions -- Simulation and Visualization of Plant Growth Using Lindenmayer Systems -- Modelling of Time-dependent 3D Weld Pool Due to a Moving Arc -- Nonlinear Optimization in Gas Networks -- Analysis and Exploitation of Jacobian Scarcity -- Exact Numerical Treatment of Finite Quantum Systems Using Leading-Edge Supercomputers -- Numerical Simulation of Solidification Processes in Continuous Casting Processing -- Fast Closed Loop Control of the Navier-Stokes System -- Advanced Column Generation Techniques for Crew Pairing Problems -- The Study of Pores and Free Volume in Amorphous Models -- A Two-Stage, High-Accuracy, Finite Element Technique of the Two Dimensional Horizontal Flow Model -- Solenoidal Discrete Initialization for Magnetohydrodynamics -- Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Experimental Design -- Controlling the Continuos Positive Airway Pressure-Device Using Partial Observable Markov Decision Processes -- Implementing Hydrodynamic N-Body Codes on Reconfigurable Computing Platforms -- Design of a Noncausal FIR Model Inverse as a Compensator in Repetitive Control -- Cutting Planes for the Optimisation of Gas Networks -- Clustering Algorithms for Parallel Car-Crash Simulation Analysis -- A General-Purpose Finite Element Method for 3D Line Transfer Problems with Application on Galaxies in the Early Universe -- Design and control of MEMS for microfluidic applications -- Open-loop Stable Control of Periodic Multibody Systems -- Stability of Higher Order Repetitive Control -- An Approach to Parameter Estimation and Model Selection in Differential Equations -- Comparison of Parallel Programming Models on Clusters of SMP Nodes -- An Object-Oriented Approach to Specification and Composition of Web Services -- Applied Stochastic Integer Programming: Scheduling in the Processing Industries -- Newton-Type Methods for Nonlinear Least Squares Using Restricted Second Order Information -- Balance Algorithm — a New Approach to Solving the Mapping Problem on Heterogeneous Systems -- SMBOpt: A Software Package for Optimal Operation of Chromatographic Simulated Moving Bed Processes -- Partly Convex and Convex-Monotonic Optimization Problems -- Efficient 1-Bit-Communication Cellular Algorithms -- Adaptive Finite Elements for Output-Oriented Model Calibration -- Simulation Study of Vehicle Platooning Maneuvers with Full-State Tracking Control -- The Modeling of Spectral Lines -- Divergence Free High Order Filter Methods for the Compressible MHD Equations.This proceedings volume contains a selection of papers presented at the symposium "International Conference on High Performance Scientific Computing'' held at the Hanoi Institute of Mathematics of the Vietnam National Center for Natural Science and Technology (NCST), March 10-14, 2003. The conference has been organized by the Hanoi Institute of Mathematics, SFB 359 ''Reactive Flows, Transport and Diffusion'', Heidelberg, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg. The contributions cover the broad interdisciplinary spectrum of scientific computing and present recent advances in theory, development of methods, and applications in practice. Subjects covered are mathematical modelling, numerical simulation, methods for optimization and optimal control, parallel computing, symbolic computing, software development, applications of scientific computing in physics, chemistry, biology and mechanics, environmental and hydrology problems, transport, logistics and site location, communication networks, production scheduling, industrial and commercial problems.