Three generalizations of the criss-cross method for quadratic programming are presented here. Tucker's, Cottle's and Dantzig's principal pivoting methods are specialized as diagonal and exchange pivots for the linear complementarity problem obtained from a convex quadratic program. A finite criss-cross method, based on least-index resolution, is constructed for solving the LCP. In proving finiteness, orthogonality properties of pivot tableaus and positive semidefiniteness of quadratic matrices are used. In the last section some special cases and two further variants of the quadratic criss-cross method are discussed. If the matrix of the LCP has full rank, then a surprisingly simple algorithm follows, which coincides with Murty's `Bard type schema' in the P matrix case.

A general framework of nite algorithms is presented here for quadratic programming. This algorithm is a direct generalization of Van der Heyden's algorithm for the linear complementarity problem and Jensen's `relaxed recursive algorithm', which was proposed for solution of Oriented Matroid programming problems. The validity of this algorithm is proved the same way as the finiteness of the criss-cross method is proved. The second part of this paper contains a generalization of Edmonds-Fukuda pivoting rule for quadratic programming. This generalization can be considered as a finite version of Van de Panne - Whinston algorithm and so it is a simplex method for quadratic programming. These algorithms uses general combinatorial type ideas, so the same methods can be applied for oriented matroids as well. The generalization of these methods for oriented matroids is a subject of another paper.

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