You are presented with multiple paper abstracts, alongside the associated literature review and chapter titles. Given the provided information, you are going to do a literature review. Please generate a coherent literature review that synthesizes the content, draws connections between different works, highlights major findings, and identifies any gaps in the existing research.

Literature Review Title: Synchronization in complex networks of phase oscillators: A survey 
Chapter Title:  Synchronization in Sparse Networks 
1. Abstract of Cited Paper (BIB001):  We provide an analysis of the classic Kuramoto model of coupled nonlinear oscillators that goes beyond the existing results for all-to-all networks of identical oscillators. Our work is applicable to oscillator networks of arbitrary interconnection topology with uncertain natural frequencies. Using tools from spectral graph theory and control theory, we prove that for couplings above a critical value, the synchronized state is locally asymptotically stable, resulting in convergence of all phase differences to a constant value, both in the case of identical natural frequencies as well as uncertain ones. We further explain the behavior of the system as the number of oscillators grows to infinity. 
2. Abstract of Cited Paper (BIB002):  Coupled biological and chemical systems, neural networks, social interacting species, the Internet and the World Wide Web, are only a few examples of systems composed by a large number of highly interconnected dynamical units. The first approach to capture the global properties of such systems is to model them as graphs whose nodes represent the dynamical units, and whose links stand for the interactions between them. On the one hand, scientists have to cope with structural issues, such as characterizing the topology of a complex wiring architecture, revealing the unifying principles that are at the basis of real networks, and developing models to mimic the growth of a network and reproduce its structural properties. On the other hand, many relevant questions arise when studying complex networks’ dynamics, such as learning how a large ensemble of dynamical systems that interact through a complex wiring topology can behave collectively. We review the major concepts and results recently achieved in the study of the structure and dynamics of complex networks, and summarize the relevant applications of these ideas in many different disciplines, ranging from nonlinear science to biology, from statistical mechanics to medicine and engineering. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 
3. Abstract of Cited Paper (BIB003):  Basics on Synchronization and Paradigmatic Models.- Basic Models.- Synchronization Due to External Periodic Forcing.- Synchronization of Two Coupled Systems.- Synchronization in Geometrically Regular Ensembles.- Ensembles of Phase Oscillators.- Chains of Coupled Limit-Cycle Oscillators.- Ensembles of Chaotic Oscillators with a Periodic-Doubling Route to Chaos, R#x00F6 ssler Oscillators.- Intermittent-Like Oscillations in Chains of Coupled Maps.- Regular and Chaotic Phase Synchronization of Coupled Circle Maps.- Controlling Phase Synchronization in Oscillatory Networks.- Chains of Limit-Cycle Oscillators.- Chains and Lattices of Excitable Luo-Rudy Systems.- Synchronization in Complex Networks and Influence of Noise.- Noise-Induced Synchronization in Ensembles of Oscillatory and Excitable Systems.- Networks with Complex Topology. 
4. Abstract of Cited Paper (BIB004):  The combination of the compactness of networks, featuring small diameters, and their complex architectures results in a variety of critical effects dramatically different from those in cooperative systems on lattices. In the last few years, researchers have made important steps toward understanding the qualitatively new critical phenomena in complex networks. We review the results, concepts, and methods of this rapidly developing field. Here we mostly consider two closely related classes of these critical phenomena, namely structural phase transitions in the network architectures and transitions in cooperative models on networks as substrates. We also discuss systems where a network and interacting agents on it influence each other. We overview a wide range of critical phenomena in equilibrium and growing networks including the birth of the giant connected component, percolation, k-core percolation, phenomena near epidemic thresholds, condensation transitions, critical phenomena in spin models placed on networks, synchronization, and self-organized criticality effects in interacting systems on networks. We also discuss strong finite size effects in these systems and highlight open problems and perspectives. 
5. Abstract of Cited Paper (BIB005):  This paper provides a theoretical framework for analysis of consensus algorithms for multi-agent networked systems with an emphasis on the role of directed information flow, robustness to changes in network topology due to link/node failures, time-delays, and performance guarantees. An overview of basic concepts of information consensus in networks and methods of convergence and performance analysis for the algorithms are provided. Our analysis frame- work is based on tools from matrix theory, algebraic graph theory, and control theory. We discuss the connections between consensus problems in networked dynamic systems and diverse applications including synchronization of coupled oscillators, flocking, formation control, fast consensus in small- world networks, Markov processes and gossip-based algo- rithms, load balancing in networks, rendezvous in space, distributed sensor fusion in sensor networks, and belief propagation. We establish direct connections between spectral and structural properties of complex networks and the speed of information diffusion of consensus algorithms. A brief introduction is provided on networked systems with nonlocal information flow that are considerably faster than distributed systems with lattice-type nearest neighbor interactions. Simu- lation results are presented that demonstrate the role of small- world effects on the speed of consensus algorithms and cooperative control of multivehicle formations. 
6. Abstract of Cited Paper (BIB006):  Synchronization in complex networks Alex Arenas, 1, 2, 3 Albert D´ iaz-Guilera, 4, 2 Jurgen Kurths, 5 Yamir Moreno, 2, 6 and Changsong Zhou 7 Departament d’Enginyeria Inform` tica i Matem` tiques, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43007 Tarragona, Spain a a Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza 50009, Spain Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 Departament de F´ isica Fonamental, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain Institute of Physics, University of Potsdam PF 601553, 14415 Potsdam, Germany Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza 50009, Spain Department of Physics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong (Dated: February 6, 2008) Synchronization processes in populations of locally interacting elements are in the focus of intense research in physical, biological, chemical, technological and social systems. The many eﬀorts de- voted to understand synchronization phenomena in natural systems take now advantage of the recent theory of complex networks. In this review, we report the advances in the comprehension of synchronization phenomena when oscillating elements are constrained to interact in a complex network topology. We also overview the new emergent features coming out from the interplay between the structure and the function of the underlying pattern of connections. Extensive nu- merical work as well as analytical approaches to the problem are presented. Finally, we review several applications of synchronization in complex networks to diﬀerent disciplines: biological systems and neuroscience, engineering and computer science, and economy and social sciences. PACS numbers: 05.45.Xt,89.75.Fb,89.75.Hc Contents I. Introduction II. Complex networks in a nutshell III. Coupled phase oscillator models on complex networks A. Phase oscillators 1. The Kuramoto model 2. Kuramoto model on complex networks 3. Onset of synchronization in complex networks 4. Path towards synchronization in complex networks 5. Kuramoto model on structured or modular networks 6. Synchronization by pacemakers B. Pulse-coupled models C. Coupled maps IV. Stability of the synchronized state in complex networks A. Master Stability Function formalism 1. Linear Stability and Master Stability Function 2. Measures of synchronizability 3. Synchronizability of typical network models 4. Synchronizability and structural characteristics of networks 5. Graph theoretical bounds to synchronizability 6. Synchronizability of weighted networks 7. Universal parameters controlling the synchronizability B. Design of synchronizable networks 1. Weighted couplings for enhancing synchronizability 2. Topological modiﬁcation for enhancing synchronizability 3. Optimization of synchronizability C. Beyond the Master Stability Function formalism V. Applications A. Biological systems and neuroscience 1. Genetic networks 2. Circadian rhythms 3. Ecology 4. Neuronal networks 5. Cortical networks B. Computer science and engineering 1. Parallel/Distributed computation 2. Data mining 3. Consensus problems 4. Communication networks 5. Material and traﬃc ﬂow 6. Power-grids C. Social sciences and economy 1. Opinion formation 2. Finance 3. World Trade Web D. Perspectives VI. Conclusions Acknowledgments References I. INTRODUCTION Synchronization, as an emerging phenomenon of a pop- ulation of dynamically interacting units, has fascinated humans from ancestral times. No matter whether the phenomenon is spontaneous or induced, synchronization captivates our minds and becomes one of the most in- teresting scientiﬁc problems. Synchronization processes are ubiquitous in nature and play a very important role in many diﬀerent contexts as biology, ecology, climatol- ogy, sociology, technology, or even in arts ((Osipov et al., 2007; Pikovsky et al., 2001). It is known that synchrony 
7. Abstract of Cited Paper (BIB007):  We derive a master stability function (MSF) for synchronization in networks of coupled dynamical systems with small but arbitrary parametric variations. Analogous to the MSF for identical systems, our generalized MSF simultaneously solves the linear-stability problem for near-synchronous states (NSS) for all possible connectivity structures. We also derive a general sufficient condition for stable near-synchronization and show that the synchronization error scales linearly with the magnitude of parameter variations. Our analysis underlines the significant role played by the Laplacian eigenvectors in the study of network synchronization of near-identical systems.

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This section considers the coupled oscillator model (1) in its general form featuring de-synchronizing dissimilar natural frequencies ω ∈ 1 ⊥ n and the synchronizing coupling through a graph G(V, E, A) with a nontrivial 10 Notice that the extreme choices for the lower bounds in Theorem 6.3 and Corollary 6.7 do not coincide, since g(ω) is required to be continuous for the lower bound in Theorem 6.3. topology. The network science, nonlinear dynamics, and physics communities coined the term complex for such non-trivial topologies to distinguish them from longrange (complete) and short-range (lattice-type) interaction topologies. The interest in such complex oscillator networks has been sparked by the seminal article BIB002 and the widespread scientific attention given to complex network studies BIB001 BIB003 BIB004 BIB007 BIB008 BIB005 , and consensus and its applications BIB006     .