@InProceedings{cheriyan_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2021.38, author = {Cheriyan, Joseph and Cummings, Robert and Dippel, Jack and Zhu, Jasper}, title = {{An Improved Approximation Algorithm for the Matching Augmentation Problem}}, booktitle = {32nd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2021)}, pages = {38:1--38:17}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-214-3}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2021}, volume = {212}, editor = {Ahn, Hee-Kap and Sadakane, Kunihiko}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2021.38}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-154714}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2021.38}, annote = {Keywords: 2-Edge connected graph, 2-edge covers, approximation algorithms, connectivity augmentation, forest augmentation problem, matching augmentation problem, network design} }