\input zb-basic \input zb-ioport \iteman{io-port 03936394} \itemau{Auslender, A.} \itemti{Two general methods for computing saddle points with applications for decomposing convex programming problems.} \itemso{Appl. Math. Optimization 13, 79-95 (1985).} \itemab Two new methods are presented for computing saddle points in finite- dimensional spaces. One of the methods is a modification of the column method given by Dantzig and Wolfe, obtained by regularizing the Lagrangian. The other method is a symmetric modification of the above. The principal application of the methods presented here is to give new decomposition algorithms for solving separable convex programming problems. \itemrv{C.A.Botsaris} \itemcc{} \itemut{saddle points; column method; decomposition algorithms; separable convex programming} \itemli{doi:10.1007/BF01442200} \end