While most of the current cloud services operate on a best effort basis and provide no timing guarantees, there is a growing interest in cloud applications for industrial and critical applications. However, for cloud technologies to be fully embraced by industry, a higher degree of determinism is desired. This calls for new techniques and methodologies
to design predictable and reliable cloud applications.

The RT-cloud workshop aims to be a forum for researchers working with topics related to real-time cloud and real-time virtualisation techniques. In particular, researchers are encouraged to submit papers regarding:

- Deterministic hypervisors and cloud execution environments
- Real-time cloud applications
-- Use-cases and requirements for RT-cloud applications, e.g., automation and cloud robotics systems
-- Experiments and experiences with RT-cloud
- Management and orchestration aspects, i.e., design
-- End-to-end resource management and resource scheduling
-- Co-scheduling of virtual network and compute resources
- Assurance in RT-cloud, deterministic scaling, fail-over, migration, etc
- Modelling of network and cloud, execution stacks and applications
- Tools and techniques for resource sharing and isolation
- Programming models for RT-Cloud
- Predictable orchestration and cloud operation, e.g., how to allocate and configure cloud resources in bounded time