Algorithm to automatically insert a class into an inheritance hierarchy, applications to hierarchies restructuring. Version without automatic handling of overloading: : (BDA'95 - corresponding implantation (beta-test): here). Version with partial automatic handling of overloading: ACM OOPSLA'96. Long version of oopsla'96 with case studies: report'97.

These works have been held with Marianne Huchard and Thérèse Libourel within the RNRT project ARES in collaboration with Michel DAO - FranceTelecom R&D