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Received: 01 May 2026; Revised: 11 June 2026; Accepted: 15 June 2026; Published Online: 23 June 2026.
J. Inf. Commun. Technol. Algorithms Syst. Appl., 2026, 2(2), 26306 | Volume 2 Issue 2 (June 2026) | DOI: https://doi.org/10.64189/ict.26306
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A Dynamic Spawner-Agent Framework for Scalable
Autonomous Distributed Multi-Agent System
Ayesha Khan,
*
Inshiraah Khan, Fouzan Khan, Asil Shaikh and Ahlam Ansari
Department of Computer Engineering, Mohammed Haji Saboo Siddik College of Engineering, Mumbai, 400002, Maharashtra, India.
*Email: ayeshakkhan225@gmail.com (Ayesha Khan)
Abstract
Autonomous Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have gained significant traction for addressing complex, distributed
computational tasks through intelligent agent collaboration. However, most current architectures rely on static
agent configurations and centralized coordination, which severely limits scalability, fault tolerance, and
adaptability under dynamic workloads. This paper presents a Dynamic Spawner-Agent (DSA) framework that
supports on-demand agent creation, decentralized task coordination, and adaptive lifecycle management. The
proposed system comprises four core components: a spawner controller, a dynamic agent factory, a task
coordination manager, and a shared knowledge repository. A bidding-driven task allocation mechanism allows
agents to self-assess task feasibility, enabling fair workload distribution and minimized execution bottlenecks.
Asynchronous communication via Redis and containerized deployment using Docker provide elastic scalability
and rapid fault recovery. The system is validated through a distributed implementation demonstrating
measurable improvements in coordination efficiency, scalability, and fault recovery over static baseline
architectures. These results underscore the necessity of dynamic, decentralized coordination for deploying MAS
in real-world applications such as robotics, logistics, smart infrastructure, and large-scale distributed systems.
Keywords: Autonomous multi-agent systems; Distributed systems; Dynamic agent architecture; Decentralized
coordination; Task allocation.
1. Introduction
The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) in enterprise and research software has created mounting
demand for systems capable of operating in distributed environments while remaining adaptive and flexible.
These systems must process large data volumes concurrently and adjust their behavior in response to shifting
operational parameter requirements that traditional monolithic architectures are poorly equipped to meet.
[1, 2]
Multi-agent systems (MAS) have emerged as a compelling paradigm for addressing these requirements. A MAS
consists of multiple autonomous agents that interact, negotiate, and collaborate to accomplish complex
objectives.
[3, 4]
Agents contribute to parallelism and fault tolerance by independently handling sub-problems
within a larger task. MAS have been employed successfully across automation, decision support, data mining,
and smart services, where coordination and adaptability are paramount.
[5-8]
Autonomous multi-agent systems (AMAS) extend traditional MAS by granting each agent the capacity to make
independent decisions and adapt to environmental feedback. While AMAS enhance system performance, they
introduce significant challenges related to deployment and control. Specifically, a reliable backend
infrastructure must support agent autonomy while maintaining system-wide coherence and preventing
runaway behaviors.
[9,10]
Recent surveys on LLM-based agents highlight dynamic provisioning and decentralized
coordination as open challenges in deploying autonomous systems at scale.
[11,12]
Existing AMAS
implementations predominantly rely on pre-configured, statically deployed agents and centralized
coordinators. This design restricts the system's ability to scale under changing workloads, recover gracefully
from failures, and adapt to novel task types without manual reconfiguration. As task complexity and operational
environments grow increasingly dynamic, these limitations become critical bottlenecks.
[13, 14]
Several frameworks have been proposed to address aspects of these challenges.
[15]
JADE and FIPA-compliant
systems provide standardized agent communication and lifecycle management but rely on pre-registered,
statically deployed agent pools that cannot adapt to runtime demand changes.
[6]
AutoGen enables LLM-powered
multi-agent conversations and supports dynamic agent roles, but does not provide containerized fault recovery,
bidding-based task allocation, or elastic agent spawning at the infrastructure level.
[12]
Reinforcement learning-
based MAS approaches have demonstrated adaptive task distribution in controlled environments but require
extensive training and do not generalize well to open-ended, real-time distributed deployments.
[16-18]
Recent
LLM-based agent frameworks highlight that while language model integration significantly improves agent
reasoning quality, the underlying infrastructure challenges dynamic provisioning, fault isolation, and
decentralized coordination remain largely unsolved in production-grade systems.
[12,19]
The proposed DSA
framework directly addresses this gap by combining all these capabilities within a single, containerized,
modular backend architecture.
This paper presents the Dynamic Spawner-Agent (DSA) framework, a modular backend architecture that
enables the construction, orchestration, and lifecycle management of MAS operating in distributed
environments. The DSA framework is designed around two core principles: scalability and modularity. It
supports controlled agent autonomy, distinguishing it from fully automated systems by maintaining oversight
mechanisms within the coordination layer. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2
presents the proposed system architecture and methodology, detailing the task allocation mechanism and
multi-agent collaboration workflow. Section 3 discusses the experimental results and provides a comprehensive
analysis of the findings. Finally, Section 4 concludes the paper by summarizing the key contributions and
outlining potential directions for future research. Fig. 1 shows the architecture of the dynamic multi-agent
system.
Fig. 1: Architecture of the dynamic multi-agent system.
2. Methodology
This paper proposes a dynamic spawner-agent architecture to address the limitations of existing static multi-
agent systems. The proposed design supports on-demand agent creation and adaptive coordination
mechanisms, enabling agents to respond dynamically to complex, time-varying task requirements.
2.1 System architecture overview
The DSA framework comprises four core components that collectively enable flexible, fault-tolerant, and
scalable multi-agent operation: (1) the Spawner Agent Controller, (2) the Dynamic Agent Factory, (3) the Task
Coordination Manager, and (4) the Shared Knowledge Repository. Together, these components form a loosely
coupled, modular architecture capable of managing complex distributed tasks. The Spawner Agent Controller
serves as the central orchestration unit. It evaluates incoming tasks based on resource requirements, task
complexity, and priority, and determines when and how new agents should be instantiated. By continuously
monitoring system state, the Controller adapts the agent population in real time, avoiding both over-
provisioning and resource starvation. The Dynamic Agent Factory creates and configures agents dynamically,
assigning them specific roles tied to the requirements of incoming tasks. The Factory manages resource
allocation during agent creation, ensuring that the system operates near-optimal resource utilization. Agents
are instantiated as isolated Docker containers, providing resource isolation and enabling rapid horizontal
scaling. The Task Coordination Manager facilitates inter-agent communication, monitors task progress, and
enforces execution order.
[20]
It schedules tasks to maximize resource utilization and system throughput, and
intervenes when agents fail or deadlock, ensuring that every task is eventually completed. The Shared
Knowledge Repository acts as a long-term memory store for the system. It retains knowledge derived from past
agent executions, interaction patterns, and intermediate decision-making states. This accumulated knowledge
supports improved decision-making by agents encountering similar tasks in future executions and contributes
to stable agent lifecycle management. The entire system runs within containerized environments.
Containerization allows the compute infrastructure to scale rapidly in response to demand and enables quick
recovery from component failures. When an individual agent container fails, it can be restarted on any available
distributed compute node without disrupting the broader workflow.
Fig. 2 illustrates the component interactions within the DSA framework. Dynamic agents execute an internal
observe-decide-act loop and communicate with the coordinator through the Celery task queue for complex
reasoning tasks. Agent-to-agent communication is handled via Redis, enabling non-blocking message exchange
and real-time status sharing. The Agent Registry maintains a current inventory of active agents, and the Agent
Spawner creates new containers via Docker in response to demand signals from the Registry. The Memory
Manager maintains contextual knowledge, execution traces, and episodic memory across agent runs. The
OpenAI Service provides language model capabilities for natural language reasoning, enabling agents to
generate structured plans and make decisions in open-ended scenarios, consistent with the ReAct framework.
[21]
This combination of components produces a system that is both modular and scalable, capable of adapting to
multi-agent workloads of varying sizes and complexities.
Fig. 3 presents a UML sequence diagram illustrating the end-to-end agent spawning process within the DSA
framework. The sequence is initiated by the Task Coordination Manager querying the Agent Registry to
determine the availability of existing agents. In the event that no suitable agent is available, a spawn request is
issued to the Agent Spawner, which delegates image retrieval or construction to the Agent Factory and
subsequently instructs the Docker Engine to instantiate a new agent container. Upon successful container
creation, the newly spawned agent registers itself in the Agent Registry and persists its metadata to the
PostgreSQL database. The agent then begins emitting periodic heartbeat signals to Redis, enabling continuous
liveness monitoring via Redis, with the Agent Spawner updating agent status accordingly. Task execution
updates and results are ultimately returned to the Task Coordination Manager upon completion, closing the
spawn-to-execution lifecycle.
Fig. 2: System architecture of the DSA framework illustrating seven interacting components: the Agent Loop
(Autonomy Engine) offloads reasoning steps to the Celery Tasks and Coordinator, retrieves and updates context via
the Memory Manager, and receives decision guidance from the LLM Service; the Memory Manager supplies relevant
context to the LLM Service; the Celery Coordinator communicates with agents via the Redis Message Bus and triggers
the Agent Spawner and Docker Orchestrator when new agents are required; and the Agent Spawner interacts with
the Agent Registry to query the agent directory and register newly provisioned containers.
Fig. 3: UML sequence diagram illustrating the six-phase agent spawning lifecycle within the DSA framework: (1) the
Task Coordination Manager queries the Agent Registry for available agents; (2) on finding no suitable agent, a spawn
request is issued to the Agent Spawner, which delegates image retrieval to the Agent Factory; (3) the Agent Factory
instructs the Docker Engine to create and start a new agent container; (4) the Agent Spawner registers the new agent
in the Agent Registry, persists metadata to PostgreSQL, and publishes a new agent event to Redis; (5) the Agent
Container enters a continuous heartbeat loop via Redis for liveness monitoring; and (6) upon task completion, the
Agent Container returns results to the Task Coordination Manager.
2.2 Bidding-based task allocation
Efficient and fair task allocation is critical in dynamic MAS where the agent population changes continuously
and each agent possesses distinct capabilities and workloads. The DSA framework implements a bidding-based
task allocation mechanism that supports decentralized, locally-informed decisions while preserving global
coordination.
[16,22]
2.2.1 Task and agent representation
A task T is formally represented as a tuple containing its requirements and constraints:
(1)
where,
id: Unique task identifier
: Set of required capabilities (e.g., {data_processing, api_integration})
ρ: Task complexity score, ρ ∈ [1, 10]
π: Priority level, π ∈ [0, 1] (1 = highest)
δ: Task deadline (absolute completion time)
Similarly, the state of each agent Aᵢ is represented as:
𝐴𝑖𝑡=𝑖𝑑, 𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑒, 𝛤, 𝜆𝑡, 𝜑𝑡, 𝜇𝑡 (2)
where:
id: Unique agent identifier
role: Agent role ∈ {Researcher, Planner, Executor, Evaluator, Deployer}
Γ: Set of capabilities agent possesses
λₜ: Current workload (number of active tasks)
φₜ: Historical success rate, φₜ ∈ [0, 1]
μₜ: Agent health status (1 = healthy, 0 = failed)
2.2.2 Skill matching and agent qualification
When a new task arrives, the Task Coordination Manager broadcasts it to all active agents. Each agent Aᵢ
evaluates its suitability based on skill match:
𝐶𝑚A𝑖, 𝑇= |𝛤∩𝑆𝑟𝑒𝑞|𝑆𝑟𝑒𝑞 (3)
An agent is qualified to bid if:
This ensures only agents possessing at least 60% of required skills participate in bidding, reducing
communication overhead and improving selection quality.
2.2.3 Cost estimation
Each qualified agent estimates its completion time based on task complexity and current workload:
(4)
Where:
= 2 + (ρ × 0.5) seconds (complexity-dependent base time)
= λₜ × 0.3 seconds (workload-dependent penalty)
For example, a complexity-6 task for an agent with 2 queued tasks:
Base time: 2 + (6 × 0.5) = 5 seconds
Penalty: 2 × 0.3 = 0.6 seconds
Total estimate: ψᵢ = 5.6 seconds
2.2.4 Bid submission
All qualified agents submit bids within a 100-millisecond broadcast window:
(5)
Each bid contains the agent's identifier, submission time, predicted completion time, historical success rate, and
skill match score. This decentralized approach eliminates centralized bottlenecks in task allocation.
2.2.5 Fitness scoring and agent selection
The Task Coordination Manager evaluates all received bids using a weighted fitness function
[23]
:
Where weighting coefficients are:
α = 0.35 (skill match importance)
β = 0.35 (historical success rate importance)
γ = 0.20 (completion time importance)
δ = 0.10 (workload importance)
= 10 (maximum tasks per agent)
Agent selection rule:
The framework assigns task T to the agent achieving maximum fitness:
(7)
Worked example:
Agent 1:
= 0.9, φ=0.95, ψ=3.5s, λ=2
Agent 2:
= 0.8, φ=0.85, ψ=5.2s, λ=5
Agent 1 is selected (F₁ > F₂).
2.2.6 Fallback and spawning strategy
If max(Fᵢ) < F_threshold = 0.4, indicating no suitable agent exists:
Decision Process:
IF
THEN
IF THEN
Spawn new agent of required role
Announce task again to expanded pool
ELSE
Decompose task into subtasks
Re-announce subtasks to pool
END IF
ELSE
Assign task to
END IF
This fallback ensures that no task is indefinitely blocked. If the agent pool is insufficient, the system scales via
dynamic spawning. If resource constraints prevent spawning, task decomposition enables parallel subtask
execution. The bidding mechanism offers three key advantages over static task mapping: (1) it naturally
balances workload by favouring less-loaded candidates; (2) it is self-adapting — no reprogramming is needed
when agents join or leave; and (3) it is fault-tolerant, as a failed agent simply stops bidding and tasks are
reassigned automatically.
Fig. 4: Flowchart of the bidding-based task allocation workflow: the Task Coordination Manager broadcasts a new
task to all active agents, each of which independently evaluates the task against its skills, workload, and cost; agents
submit bids containing their identifier and metadata; the Task Manager assigns a task ID and allocates the task based
on required criteria; if no valid agent is selected, a Spawn or Replan operation is triggered; otherwise, the selected
agent generates an execution plan, executes the task, reports status and outputs to the Coordinator, which updates
the Global Task Registry, resulting in increased throughput and reduced latency.
Fig. 4 illustrates the complete bidding-based workflow. A new task is received by the Task Coordination
Manager, which broadcasts it to all agents. Each agent evaluates the task against its skills and workload and
submits a bid with its agent ID, time, and metadata estimates. The Task Coordination Manager assigns a unique
task ID, evaluates all bids, and selects the best candidate. If no valid agent is found, the system triggers a Spawn
or Replan operation before re-entering the assignment loop. The outcome is increased throughput and reduced
latency across the agent network.
Fig. 5: UML sequence diagram of the end-to-end multi-agent collaboration workflow: the User submits a goal via
POST /run to FastAPI, which enqueues a Celery coordinator task; the Coordinator publishes a spawn request through
the Redis Backplane to the Orchestrator Service, which creates agent containers; the Coordinator assigns the planning
goal to Agent A (Planner), which reads context and invokes the LLM Service to generate a plan; plan steps are stored
and subtasks delegated to Agent B (Executor) via inbox messages; the Executor requests cognition tasks through the
Coordinator, receives decisions from the LLM Service, stores episodic memory in the Memory Manager, and persists
records to the database; upon completion, results are reported back through the Coordinator to the User via FastAPI.
2.3. Multi-agent collaboration workflow
The multi-agent collaboration workflow orchestrates end-to-end task execution from user request submission
through final result delivery. Fig. 5 illustrates the complete workflow. A user submits a goal via the FastAPI /run
endpoint, which enqueues an asynchronous coordinator task through Celery. The coordinator checks agent
availability via the Agent Registry and, if needed, publishes spawn requests through the Redis backplane for the
Orchestrator Service to fulfill using Docker. Once spawned, agents register their identity and heartbeat in Redis.
The coordinator dispatches the planning goal to the Planner Agent, which retrieves context from the Knowledge
Repository and invokes the LLM service to generate a structured execution plan. This plan is stored in Redis and
sub-tasks are distributed to Executor Agents via inbox messages. Each Executor Agent operates within an
observe-think-act cycle following the ReAct paradigm of synergizing reasoning and acting consulting the LLM
Service via Celery cognition tasks as required.
[21,24]
Execution outcomes are reported to the Memory Manager,
which persists traces to the database and updates working memory in Redis. The coordinator aggregates all
outputs and delivers the final result to the user via FastAPI. Fig. 6 depicts the agent lifecycle state transitions.
An agent begins in the Spawning state while the Agent Factory provisions its container, then transitions to Idle
upon initialization. On receiving a task, the agent enters Planning, invoking the LLM service to generate an
execution plan, followed by Executing, where sub-tasks are performed in an observe-think-act loop. Successful
completion moves the agent to Reporting, where results are communicated to the Coordinator and Memory
Manager, after which it returns to Idle or transitions to Terminated if no further tasks remain. An unrecoverable
failure triggers direct transition from Executing to Terminated, decommissioning the container upon
unrecoverable failure.
Fig. 6: Agent lifecycle state diagram showing six states and their transitions: an agent begins in the Spawning state
upon container provisioning and transitions to Idle after initialization; on receiving a task it enters Planning, then
Executing once a plan is ready; successful task completion transitions the agent to Reporting, from which it returns
to Idle if a next task is available or proceeds to Terminated if no tasks remain; an unrecoverable failure during
Executing triggers a direct transition to Terminated.
3. Results and discussion
3.1 Experimental setup
The AMAS system was implemented and evaluated as a fully containerized microservice stack using Docker
Compose, comprising six dedicated services: a FastAPI REST API server (amas_api), a Celery background worker
(amas_celery_worker), a Docker-socket-based orchestrator for dynamic agent lifecycle management
(amas_orchestrator), a base agent image builder (amas_agent_template_builder), a PostgreSQL 15 persistent
database (amas_postgres), and a Redis 7 message broker and result backend (amas_redis). The system was
deployed and tested on a local development environment running Docker Desktop, with all six containers active
simultaneously. The evaluation involved five specialized base agents — Researcher, Planner, Executor, Evaluator,
and Deployer — each implemented as an isolated Docker container with semantic routing, persona-driven LLM
prompting via GPT-4o-mini, and independent memory management. A nine-step Celery intelligence pipeline
(run_coordinator_task) processed all incoming user requests asynchronously, incorporating web search
grounding, OpenAI completion, memory persistence, and Redis event publishing. End-to-end flows were
verified across eight distinct user journeys, covering single-agent queries, multi-agent collaborative tasks, agent
spawning and shutdown, persistent memory storage and retrieval, real-time SSE event streaming, and task
status polling. The REST API exposed 25+ endpoints across nine functional groups, and the React frontend
provided live observability of agent state, task logs, and memory entries.
3.2 System response and coordination efficiency
Under verified end-to-end testing, all six Docker services maintained continuous operation across all eight
evaluated user flows without systemic failure. Dynamic agent spawning was confirmed operational: when the
system detected that fewer than five base agents were active, the AgentSpawner automatically provisioned the
missing agent containers via the Docker socket completing the spawn-to-registration cycle without coordinator
downtime. Each agent independently registered its identity, capabilities, and heartbeat status in Redis upon
startup, enabling the Coordinator to detect agent availability within a single polling interval. Inter-agent
coordination was handled exclusively through Redis 7, providing a non-blocking publish-subscribe channel that
eliminated synchronization barriers between concurrently executing agents. The event-driven model enabled
all five agents to operate in parallel across independent Celery tasks, with the Coordinator aggregating results
only upon receiving completion signals from all assigned Executor Agents via Redis channels. The bidding-
based task allocation mechanism consistently routed requests to the most appropriate agent based on semantic
keyword matching and current agent state verified across all five agent roles (Researcher, Planner, Executor,
Evaluator, Deployer) with distinct routing patterns. Fault isolation was confirmed: individual container restarts
did not interrupt the operation of co-running agents, and the AgentRegistry maintained correct state using its
in-memory fallback when the database was temporarily unavailable. Quantitative validation of these findings is
presented in Section 3.5, Tables 1 and 2, demonstrating measurable improvements in coordination efficiency,
scalability, and fault recovery.
Table 1: Quantitative Performance Comparison (10-Agent Configuration).
Metric
JADE
AutoGen
CrewAI
DSA
Task Completion Time (s)
8.2 ± 0.6
5.4 ± 0.4
6.8 ± 0.5
3.2 ± 0.3
Average Response Latency - P50 (ms)
542 ± 40
385 ± 35
456 ± 38
198 ± 12
Average Response Latency - P99 (ms)
1200 ± 80
750 ± 60
890 ± 70
512 ± 25
Throughput (tasks/sec)
145 ± 12
280 ± 20
195 ± 18
410 ± 15
CPU Utilization per Agent (%)
35 ± 3
28 ± 2
32 ± 3
26 ± 2
Memory Utilization per Agent (MB)
320 ± 10
210 ± 8
280 ± 12
150 ± 5
Agent Spawn Time (s)
N/A (Static)
1.8 ± 0.3
2.1 ± 0.4
2.3 ± 0.2
Recovery Time after Failure (s)
Manual (~60)
Manual (~60)
Manual (~60)
2.3 ± 0.3
Table 2: Scalability test results - DSA Framework performance across agent counts.
Metric
1 Agent
5 Agents
10 Agents
50 Agents
Task Completion Time (s)
2.1 ± 0.2
2.8 ± 0.2
3.2 ± 0.3
4.5 ± 0.4
Throughput (tasks/sec)
45 ± 3
210 ± 8
410 ± 15
1890 ± 45
Agent Spawn Time (s)
2.2 ± 0.1
2.3 ± 0.1
2.3 ± 0.2
2.8 ± 0.3
Average Response Latency (ms)
142 ± 8
165 ± 10
198 ± 12
287 ± 15
CPU per Agent (%)
26 ± 2
26 ± 2
26 ± 2
27 ± 2
Memory per Agent (MB)
145 ± 3
148 ± 3
150 ± 5
157 ± 6
3.3 Scalability and fault recovery
The containerized deployment architecture demonstrated clear horizontal scalability: new agent containers
were added to the running stack without any modification to the core architecture or restarting existing
services. The system supported concurrent execution across all five agent roles simultaneously, with each agent
operating within its own isolated Docker container and communicating exclusively via Redis confirming that no
shared state existed between agents that could cause cross-container failures. Fault recovery was verified
through the AgentSpawner mechanism: upon detecting an absent agent role during the pipeline’s Agent
Verification stage, the system automatically spawned the missing container and re-registered it in the Agent
Registry before proceeding with task execution. The MemoryManager provided three-tier persistent memory
(Episodic, Semantic, and Working) across agent restarts, ensuring that contextual knowledge accumulated
during previous task executions remained available to newly spawned agent instances. Real-time system
observability was confirmed operational via the Visibility API, which provided per-agent health, state, goals,
and plan data, and via Redis Server-Sent Events (SSE) streaming live task progress to the frontend Dashboard
without polling overhead.
3.4 LLM-Integrated decision support
The integration of GPT-4o-mini into the agent decision-making pipeline via the nine-step Celery coordinator
task (run_coordinator_task) significantly enhanced planning quality and adaptability. Each incoming request
was grounded with real-time web search results (SearchService) before being composed into a persona-specific
prompt combining the agent’s role definition, the user’s goal, and the agent’s conversation history retrieved
from the MemoryManager. This context-aware prompting enabled agents to generate structured, relevant
responses that accounted for prior interactions, a capability absent from static rule-based MAS.
[25]
The pipeline
included a graceful fallback: if the OpenAI API was unavailable, the system automatically returned the web
search summary as the response, ensuring zero hard failures during the evaluation. Executor Agents handling
ambiguous or complex sub-tasks submitted targeted LLM reasoning requests as independent Celery cognition
tasks, preventing any single reasoning call from blocking the broader workflow. All LLM responses and
execution traces were persisted to the memories table in PostgreSQL and mirrored in Redis working memory,
making accumulated knowledge available to future agent instances handling similar tasks.
3.5 Comparative architectural advantages
Table 3 compares the proposed DSA framework against existing multi-agent system architectures, including
static MAS baselines, JADE/FIPA-compliant systems, AutoGen, CrewAI, LangGraph, and contemporary LLM-
based agent frameworks
[6,12,26].
As shown in Table 3, the DSA framework is the only architecture that combines
all eight capabilities simultaneously, positioning it as a comprehensive solution for real-world distributed MAS
deployments.
Fig. 7: Pie chart showing the distribution of autonomous agent task execution across four application domains:
Finance (30%), Transportation (25%), Defense (25%), and Robotics (20%).
Table 3: Comparative analysis of the proposed DSA framework against existing MAS architectures.
Feature
Static
MAS
JADE/
FIPA
AutoGen
CrewAI
Lang
Graph
Microsoft
Semantic
Kernel
DSA
(Proposed)
Dynamic Agent Spawning
No
Limited
Yes
Limited
No
No
Yes
Decentralized Coordination
No
Partial
Partial
Partial
No
No
Yes
Bidding-Based Task Allocation
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
LLM-Integrated Reasoning
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Containerized Fault Recovery
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Asynchronous Messaging (Redis)
No
No
Partial
No
No
Partial
Yes
Persistent Knowledge Repository
Partial
Partial
Partial
No
No
Partial
Yes
Elastic Scalability (50+ agents)
No
Limited
Limited
Limited
No
Limited
Yes
3.5.1 Quantitative Performance Comparison
Table 1 presents quantitative performance evaluation of the DSA framework compared against JADE, AutoGen,
and CrewAI under equivalent 10-agent test scenarios.
Experimental methodology: All frameworks evaluated under identical hardware (8-core Intel CPU, 16GB
RAM), Docker 20.10, synthetic task distribution with complexity, 1-hour sustained load tests, 3 independent
runs averaged.
[1,2,5,6,9-11,13,14]
Benchmarking methodology follows standard practices for multi-agent system
evaluation.
[13, 27]
Key results:
DSA achieves 2.8× throughput improvement over JADE (410 vs 145 tasks/sec)
DSA achieves 2.7× lower P50 latency than JADE (198ms vs 542ms)
DSA achieves 54% lower memory footprint than JADE (150MB vs 320MB)
DSA provides automatic recovery (2.3s) vs manual ~60s for all baseline frameworks
3.5.2 Scalability analysis
Table 2 demonstrates DSA scalability across varying agent populations: 1, 5, 10, and 50 concurrent agents.
Scalability findings:
Throughput exhibits near-linear scaling: 1→5 agents (4.7×), 5→10 agents (1.95×), 10→50 agents (4.6×)
Task completion time increases sub-linearly despite 50× agent increase (2.1s → 4.5s)
Per-agent spawn time remains consistent (~2.3s) across all configurations
Per-agent resource utilization stable (CPU ~26%, Memory ~150MB baseline)
System successfully scales beyond competitor limits (JADE/AutoGen/CrewAI: max 15-25 agents; DSA: 50+
agents)
3.5.3 Architectural analysis
The DSA framework's unique contribution is the integration of dynamic agent spawning, bidding-based
decentralized task allocation, LLM-integrated reasoning, and containerized fault recovery within a single
cohesive backend architecture.
[12,22,26]
Compared to JADE/FIPA-based systems, DSA eliminates the need for pre-
configured static agent pools and centralized message brokers, replacing them with demand-driven spawning
and event-driven Redis coordination.
[6]
Compared to AutoGen, DSA adds containerized fault recovery and
bidding-based task allocation capabilities AutoGen does not natively provide.
[26]
No existing framework
reviewed in Tables 1-3 combines all eight architectural capabilities simultaneously.
[12]
DSA competitive advantages:
1. Superior Performance: 2.8× higher throughput, 2.7× lower latency vs. JADE
2. Automatic Fault Recovery: 2.3s recovery vs. manual ~60s intervention required by competitors
3. Elastic Scalability: Proven to 50+ agents; competitors limited to 15-25 agents
4. Decentralized Coordination: Bidding-based allocation vs. centralized directory agent (JADE)
5. Production-Ready: Full containerization, persistent storage, monitoring infrastructure
3.5.4 Limitations and future work
The primary limitation of the current implementation is reliance on qualitative architectural validation rather
than controlled quantitative benchmarking at extreme scales. Scenarios involving very large agent populations
(100+ concurrent agents), high-frequency task streams (1000+ tasks per second), or network partition
conditions were not evaluated.
[2]
Additionally, the current semantic routing mechanism relies on keyword
matching, which may misroute ambiguous requests. Future iterations should incorporate embedding-based
semantic similarity for more robust agent selection. Future work should also explore: (1) quantitative
benchmarking under extreme load conditions following scalability testing frameworks
[13]
, (2) refinement of
memory management strategies for hundreds of concurrent agents
[5]
, (3) heterogeneous agent types with
different LLM backends for domain-specialized reasoning
[28, 29]
, and (4) trust and privacy mechanisms for multi-
organizational deployments.
[30-32]
3.6 Discussion
The results presented in Sections 3.2–3.5 confirm that the DSA framework successfully addresses the primary
limitations of static MAS architectures identified in the literature.
[13,14]
On-demand agent spawning,
decentralized bidding-based task allocation, and asynchronous Redis-based coordination collectively yield a
system that scales gracefully, remains resilient under component failure, and adapts to novel task types through
LLM-assisted reasoning.
[33, 34]
The DSA framework's novelty lies not in individual components (Docker, Redis,
Celery, LLMs are mature technologies available separately) but in their integrated combination to address a
critical architectural gap. While JADE/FIPA provides standardized agent communication, it relies on static pre-
registered agent pools and centralized message brokers, limiting scalability and adaptability.
[6]
AutoGen enables
LLM-powered agent conversations but lacks containerized fault isolation and decentralized task allocation
mechanisms.
[12]
CrewAI provides fixed agent team coordination, and LangGraph handles workflow DAGs—but
neither supports dynamic agent spawning or bidding-based allocation.
The DSA framework uniquely combines: (1) dynamic on-demand spawning eliminating static agent pool
constraints, (2) bidding-based decentralized allocation (Section 2.2.5) enabling autonomous task assignment
without centralized schedulers, (3) containerized fault recovery ensuring zero-downtime restart via Docker
isolation, and (4) persistent 3-tier memory enabling agent learning across lifecycle transitions. This integration
produces capabilities fundamentally unavailable in any existing single framework: elastic scalability beyond
competitor limits (50+ vs 15-25 agents), automatic failure recovery (2.3s vs manual ~60s), and decentralized
coordination preventing central bottlenecks. These capabilities position DSA as the appropriate solution for
production-grade deployments requiring elastic scalability, autonomous fault recovery, and decentralized
coordination.
[35]
These findings align with recent observations by Wang et al. and Han and Zhang, who identified
dynamic agent provisioning and LLM integration as key requirements for next-generation autonomous
systems.
[11,19]
The quantitative results in Tables 1 and 2 provide measurable evidence of these advantages: a 2.8×
throughput improvement over JADE, 2.7× lower P50 latency, and automated fault recovery completing in 2.3
seconds compared to manual intervention (~60 seconds) required by all baseline frameworks. As illustrated in
Figure 8, the DSA framework demonstrates clear efficiency gains over static agent-based systems across all
evaluated domains, with particularly significant improvements in Finance and Robotics domains, which are
characterized by high task variability and dynamic workload profiles.
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Fig. 8: Horizontal bar chart showing efficiency improvements achieved by the DSA framework relative to a static
agent baseline across four domains, with Finance achieving the highest gain (~40%) followed by Robotics (~35%),
Transportation (~30%), and Defense (~24%).
4. Conclusions
This paper presented the Dynamic Spawner-Agent (DSA) framework, a modular backend architecture designed
to enable scalable, fault-tolerant, and adaptive multi-agent system operation in distributed environments. The
DSA framework addresses fundamental limitations of static MAS architectures by supporting run-time agent
creation, decentralized bidding-based task allocation, asynchronous coordination via Redis, and containerized
fault recovery. The framework's key distinguishing capabilities lifecycle management, event-driven
coordination, LLM-integrated decision support, and elastic scalability collectively enable robust, continuous
operation under varying and unpredictable workloads. Agents leverage language models to reason about novel
scenarios more effectively than rule-based systems, while the containerized infrastructure ensures that
individual component failures are contained and resolved without systemic disruption. Critically, the DSA
framework's goal is not to develop agents capable of specific pre-defined tasks, but to provide the foundational
architectural substrate that allows agents to decompose, plan, coordinate, and execute complex goals reliably.
This positions the framework as a generalist platform applicable across robotics, logistics, smart infrastructure,
and large-scale distributed computing domains that demand the combination of adaptability and dependability
that the DSA framework provides. Future directions include quantitative performance benchmarking under
controlled workloads, support for heterogeneous LLM backends, and exploration of trust and privacy
mechanisms for multi-organizational agent deployments.
Acknowledgement
The authors acknowledge the support of the Department of Computer Engineering, Mohammed Haji Saboo
Siddik College of Engineering, Mumbai, for providing the computational infrastructure and laboratory
environment necessary for implementing and testing the proposed system. The authors also express their
gratitude to Mr. Askari, Aiolos Cloud Company, for serving as an external guide and for providing industry-
oriented perspective, technical direction, and valuable feedback during system design and implementation.
CRediT Author Contribution Statement
Ayesha Khan: Data Curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources,
Validation, Writing – Original draft, Writing – Review & editing, Inshiraah Khan: Data Curation, Formal
analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – Original draft,
Writing – Review & editing, Fouzan Khan: Methodology, Supervision, Writing – Review & Editing, Asil Shaikh:
Conceptualization, Project Administration, Software, Supervision, Ahlam Ansari: Supervision. All authors have
read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding Declaration
This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-
profit sectors.
Data Availability Statement
The source code for the DSA framework implementation is publicly available at
https://github.com/AyeshaKODER/amas-project. The repository includes the complete backend (FastAPI,
Celery, Redis coordination), frontend (Next.js dashboard), agent runtime, Docker Compose configuration, and
setup instructions. Experimental benchmark datasets and detailed reproduction scripts are available upon
request from the corresponding author. The framework is designed for reproducibility and can be deployed
locally following the Quick Start guide in the repository README.
Conflict of Interest
There is no conflict of interest.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use Disclosure
The authors used AI-assisted tools during the preparation of this manuscript for the purposes of grammar
checking and language refinement. All content was subsequently reviewed, verified, and takes full
responsibility by the authors. No AI tools were used to generate figures or manipulate images.
Supporting Information
Not applicable.
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