Development of a Fault Detection Model-Based Controller -- Sensitivity Generation in an Adaptive BDF-Method -- The gVERSE RF Pulse: An Optimal Approach to MRI Pulse Design -- Modelling the Performance of the Gaussian Chemistry Code on x86 Architectures -- Numerical Simulation of the December 26, 2004: Indian Ocean Tsunami -- Approximate Dynamic Programming for Generation of Robustly Stable Feedback Controllers -- Integer Programming Approaches to Access and Backbone IP Network Planning -- An Adaptive Fictitious-Domain Method for Quantitative Studies of Particulate Flows -- Adaptive Sparse Grid Techniques for Data Mining -- On the Stochastic Geometry of Birth-and-Growth Processes. Application to Material Science, Biology and Medicine -- Inverse Problem of Lindenmayer Systems on Branching Structures -- 3D Cloud and Storm Reconstruction from Satellite Image -- Providing Query Assurance for Outsourced Tree-Indexed Data -- An Adaptive Space-Sharing Scheduling Algorithm for PC-Based Clusters -- Fitting Multidimensional Data Using Gradient Penalties and Combination Techniques -- Mathematical Modelling of Chemical Diffusion through Skin using Grid-based PSEs -- Modelling Gene Regulatory Networks Using Galerkin Techniques Based on State Space Aggregation and Sparse Grids -- A Numerical Study of Active-Set and Interior-Point Methods for Bound Constrained Optimization -- Word Similarity In WordNet -- Progress in Global Optimization and Shape Design -- EDF Scheduling Algorithm for Periodic Messages On Switched Ethernet -- Large-Scale Nonlinear Programming for Multi-scenario Optimization -- On the Efficiency of Python for High-Performance Computing: A Case Study Involving Stencil Updates for Partial Differential Equations -- Designing Learning Control that is Close to Instability for Improved Parameter Identification -- Fast Numerical Methods for Simulation of Chemically Reacting Flows in Catalytic Monoliths -- A Deterministic Optimization Approach for Generating Highly Nonlinear Balanced Boolean Functions in Cryptography -- Project-Oriented Scheduler for Cluster Systems -- Optimizing Spring-Damper Design in Human Like Walking that is Asymptotically Stable Without Feedback -- Stability Optimization of Juggling -- Numerical Model of Far Turbulent Wake Behind Towed Body in Linearly Stratified Media -- A New Direction to Parallelize Winograd’s Algorithm on Distributed Memory Computers -- Stability Problems in ODE Estimation -- A Fast, Parallel Performance of Fourth Order Iterative Algorithm on Shared Memory Multiprocessors (SMP) Architecture -- Design and Implementation of a Web Services-Based Framework Using Remoting Patterns -- Simulation of Tsunami and Flash Floods -- Differentiating Fixed Point Iterations with ADOL-C: Gradient Calculation for Fluid Dynamics -- Design Patterns for High-Performance Matrix Computations -- Smoothing and Filling Holes with Dirichlet Boundary Conditions -- Constraint Hierarchy and Stochastic Local Search for Solving Frequency Assignment Problem -- Half-Sweep Algebraic Multigrid (HSAMG) Method Applied to Diffusion Equations -- Solving City Bus Scheduling Problems in Bangkok by Eligen-Algorithm -- Partitioning for High Performance of Predicting Dynamical Behavior of Color Diffusion in Water using 2-D tightly Coupled Neural Cellular Network -- Automatic Information Extraction from the Web: An HMM-Based Approach -- Advanced Wigner Method for Fault Detection and Diagnosis System.

This proceedings volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Third International Conference on High Performance Scientific Computing held at the Hanoi Institute of Mathematics, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), March 6-10, 2006. The conference has been organized by the Hanoi Institute of Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg, and its International PhD Program ``Complex Processes: Modeling, Simulation and Optimization'', and Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology. 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 control, parallel 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.