%0 Report %9 IIASA Working Paper %A Rosa, C.H. %A Ruszczynski, A. %C IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria %D 1994 %F iiasa:4089 %T On Augmented Lagrangian Decomposition Methods for Multistage Stochastic Programs %U https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4089/ %X A general decomposition framework for large convex optimization problems based on augmented Lagrangians is described. The approach is then applied to multistage stochastic programming problems in two different ways: by decomposing the problem into scenarios and by decomposing it into nodes corresponding to stages. Theoretical convergence properties of the two approaches are derived and a computational illustration is presented.