Abstract. We introduce the new class of the absolutely (p; p1, ..., pm; σ)-continuous multilinear operators, that is defined using a summability property that provides the multilinear version of the absolutely (p, σ)-continuous operators. We give an analogue of Pietsch's Domination Theorem and a multilinear version of the associated Factorization Theorem that holds for absolutely (p, σ)-continuous operators, obtaining in this way a rich factorization theory. We present also a tensor norm which represents this multiideal by trace duality. As an application, we show that absolutely (p; p1, ..., pm; σ)-continuous multilinear operators are compact under some requirements. Applications to factorization of linear maps on Banach function spaces through interpolation spaces are also given.