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The Computer Journal 1968 11(3):299-301; doi:10.1093/comjnl/11.3.299
© 1968 by British Computer Society
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The sofa problem

W. E. Howden *

University Mathematical Laboratory, Corn Exchange Street, Cambridge, UK

A program is described which can be used to determine if an irregular two-dimensional object can be moved from one point to another point inside a complicated two-dimensional structure (the two-dimensional sofa problem). The representation of the program in terms of a problem network and an associated search procedure is used to indicate the desirability of a generalised programming schema.

First received March 1968. revised form May 1968.

* University Mathematical Laboratory, Corn Exchange Street, Cambridge.


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