Today's data centres offer many different IT services mostly hosted on dedicated physical servers. Virtualization provides a technical means for server consolidation leading to increased server utilization. The term refers to the abstraction of computing resources across many aspects of...

We propose Hybrid Shrink (HS), a novel model for combining forecasts that merges forecast selection, weighting, and shrinkage concepts by shrinking forecasters’ weights to average weights, i.e., toward subset selection, or to zero. HS learns the forecast shrinkage direction by minimizing the...