The platform for research on auction mechanisms is a distributed simulation framework providing means to carry out research Mortar on resource allocation efficiency mechanisms and user strategies.Both kinds of algorithms examined are completely user-defined.Interaction of algorithms is recorded and pre-defined measures for the final resource allocation are calculated.Underlying database design provides for efficient results lookup and comparison across different experiments, thus enabling research groupwork.A recognised, BEARD OIL open and flexible information model is employed for experiment descriptions.