Optimal parameter selection by imbedding techniques

Dynamical systems controlled only by parameters are often met in the study of chemical processes. Boltyanskii [1, p. 263] has given certain necessary conditions for the selection of optimal parameters. In this correspondence a computational procedure using the continuation method is presented, a two-point boundary-value problem of anticipative type is reduced to an initial value problem, and an example is given to illustrate the procedure.