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Specifically, the goal is to identify the groups of objects that are primarily origins or destinations of the directed exchanges, and, together, to measure the extent to which these clusters differ across occasions. The model is based on two clustering structures for the objects, which are linked one-to-one and common to all occasions. The first structure assumes a standard partition of the objects to fit the average amounts of the exchanges, while the second one fits the imbalances using an \u201cincomplete\u201d partition of the objects, allowing some to remain unassigned. In addition, to account for the heterogeneity of the occasions, the amounts and directions of exchange between clusters are modeled by occasion-specific weights. An Alternating Least-Squares algorithm is provided. 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