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Aligning such norms with the objectives of the agents is crucially important to ensure that applying the norms would not affect the achievement of their objectives. However, when the environment is dynamic, agents can face unseen situations and might need to change their objectives accordingly. Therefore, it becomes more challenging to understand the change, synthesise norms, and align them with such dynamic objectives. This paper introduces a Dynamic Objectives and Norms Synthesizer and Reasoner (DONSR) model to align objectives and norms using a utility-based approach. An ontology-based schema, forward reasoning, and backward reasoning are used to identify the change in the environment and synthesise new objectives. Case-based reasoning enables the dynamic changing and reasoning of previously created objectives and synthesising norms. 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